With reference to the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), literacy has been noted as an indispensible skill that all students require in order to become successful learners, and as well as creating a base line for success across all learning areas, which is dependent on the ability to use ‘the significant, identifiable and distinctive literacy that is important for learning and representative of the content of that learning area’ (2013, p1). Using the Australian Curriculum for 7-10 Geography, this essay will explore the reasons why the study of literacy is important for all teachers and what it means to be literate in the geography subject area. Further more, this essay will provide examples of teaching strategies …show more content…
As time progresses into the 21st century, so too does the meaning of literacy. With the rise of what is considered ‘new literacies’ such as the Internet, more students are increasingly using the Internet and other electronic technologies such as computers and smartphones to engage in and access various new age prints, and visual and digital texts, using and modifying language to create context which have been created as new forms of literacy (Tompkins, Campbell and Green, 2012). Blog posting websites, emailing, playing online games and multimodal stories all require different genres of language in order to convey meaning, which has had an influence of the changing social view of language, which can be seen embedded in the