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How Has Literacy Changed Over The Years

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The focus of this essay is literacy in the early years, in the last 100 years what was perceived as our understanding of literacy and how it is learned and carried out has changed. Multimodal is a term used in the Australian Curriculum relating to the use of two or more modes for example, written language, spoken language, image and music. Children of this decade will be much more proficient in different modes before they begin primary school, Children needing to be skilled in so many modes it is vital to have a strong literacy foundation in place for students to have the ability to achieve within the different modes. Literacy is explained by Thames & York (2004, p.603) ‘Literacy is complex it is constantly mediated force that can take on a life of its own in different contexts, …show more content…

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