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Building and Enhancing Literacy Skills Across The Curriculum

Literacy is critical for making sense of the world and involves reading, writing, speaking, and listening effectively. It is important from a young age as children begin communicating and develops through interactions with family and exposure to symbols. Literacy allows students to engage with written information in everyday life and keeps them informed as citizens. Supporting literacy development requires a combined effort between home and school through activities like reading together, discussing texts, using word games, and utilizing the library.

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Building and Enhancing Literacy Skills Across The Curriculum

Literacy is critical for making sense of the world and involves reading, writing, speaking, and listening effectively. It is important from a young age as children begin communicating and develops through interactions with family and exposure to symbols. Literacy allows students to engage with written information in everyday life and keeps them informed as citizens. Supporting literacy development requires a combined effort between home and school through activities like reading together, discussing texts, using word games, and utilizing the library.

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Building and

Enhancing Literacy
Skills Across the
Curriculum
Why we need to study Literacy?
The literacy experiences and
outcomes promote the development of
critical and creative thinking as well as
competence in listening and talking,
reading, writing and the personal,
interpersonal and team-working
skills which are so important in life and
in the world of work.
What is Literacy?
Literacy is the ability to read, write, speak and listen in a way
that lets us communicate effectively and make sense of the
world.
Literacy is critical in helping us make sense of our world.
From the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep, we are
constantly making meaning of the world around us.
Literacy is defined as being able to read and write, or to
having knowledge about a specific subject. When you can
read, this is an example of literacy. When you are familiar
with math, this is an example of literacy in mathematics. The
ability to read.
Examples of
 Literacy
Literacy with Young Children
From the moment child is born, his or her literacy journey begins.
Children’s literacy abilities are nurtured through their families and
communities. Examples are
• the infant smiling or crying to communicate their needs to a
parent
• the toddler forming their first words
• a young child interpreting the symbols around them
• a preschooler singing a song and
• a parent and child laughing over a story
Why is literacy important?
 Students need literacy in order to engage with the written
word in everyday life.
 Think of how often you use your own reading skills in everyday
life. It’s not just articles like this one that require literacy,
but signs, labels, and the messages on your phone, too.
 The same goes for writing. Nowadays, even phone calls have
given way to instant messaging and text-based communication,
making the ability to read all the more important.
 But beyond the functional level, literacy plays a vital role in
transforming students into socially engaged citizens. Being
able to read and write means being able to keep up with
current events, communicate effectively, and understand the
issues that are shaping our world.
Ways to support literacy development

Literacy development should be


a combined effort between
home and school. Here are a few
things you can do to support
early learners’ literacy skills:
Encourage reading
Reading is the first pillar of literacy, so
encourage young learners to immerse
themselves in it frequently and deeply. This
should involve exposure to a broad variety of
different genres, such as newspapers, novels,
comics, magazines, films, reference material,
and websites.
Discuss texts together

Actively discussing what has been read


encourages learners to make connections
and think deeply about the ideas contained
in texts. Follow up the reading or viewing
of a text with a discussion of what it made
learners think and feel.
Use games and activities that support
literacy development
• Write a half-page story that makes use of a new and unusual word
or phrase.
• Describe a person or object with as many adjectives as you can
think of.
• recap the plot of a novel or film in your own words (as learners
progress they can try to do this in as few words as possible).
• Have a competition to see who can find as many rhyming words
as possible, starting from a given word. Learners could also write
poems or songs with rhyme.
Make use of the library

Immersing children in a huge range of texts


encourages them to dive in and explore.
There’s no better place to do this than the
school or community library.

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