Robert Mendez from Anita Merina article “Literacy: A Family Affair” had the same guilt of not knowing how to read. “Literacy is more than learning to read. It’s getting rid of the luggage of guilt and shame. It’s realizing you’re opening doors” Robert says (9). Robert had the same motivation as Malcolm X.
1. What are the turning points in the narrative? What are the most important things the writer seems to learn? The first turning point in the narrative is when Mr. Richard Rodriguez is in second grade.
The importance behind literacy is not only the knowledge, but also, that it is used as a tool
What effect does the knowledge that literacy is prohibited have on
The Importance of Literary Sponsorship Within her article, Sponsors of Literacy, Deborah Brandt asserts that everyone’s literary abilities are in some way shaped by a type of literary sponsor. These so called sponsors can be found in an abundance of forms, whether it be institutions, life changing events, or more commonly other people. My experiences comply with the information that Brandt has gathered regarding how the presence of a strong and positive literary sponsor in someone's life can work to nurture both reading and writing skills.
In the article “Past Experiences and Future Attitudes in Literacy” by Erika J. Peterson, she explains how our experiences affect our learning of reading and writing and even the future. Everyone has their own different experiences growing up whether you were praised for it or not. As children, they are more sensitive from the feedback given from their leaders such as their parents and teachers. This feedback affects their confidence whether it be negative or positive. Erika ties in an experiment done by Rick Evans and Alisa Belzer in which they interviewed and conducted questionnaires on a group of middle-class college students on how they learned to read and write.
In his article “Locked in literacy: why reading isn’t always good for you,” Leo Robson explains how reading can in fact do more harm than good. He provides detailed descriptions on the side effects, quoting other authors, of how reading causes damage to: the influence of readers and their authors, a person’s mentality, and a person’s time. The world is full of people who are able to write. However, while there are numerous books, the ability to write what one desires instead of writing what other’s desire has began to dissipate.
Literacy is a lifelong process, as a child in elementary school, I learned about the basics of writing and reading. The basics helped me progress into middle school and high school. At this point, we write complex essays and read books that take hours or days to finish. Literacy is required to see development. I still remember the times I struggled in elementary school.
An effective literacy action plan designed to meet the needs of all students in the school is essential to leading a comprehensive and coordinated literacy improvement effort. A literacy action plan allows all members of the school community to understand the school's current status, goals for the future, the actions to be taken to reach the goals, who is responsible, and how success will be measured. Effective use of data is the key to a successful schoolwide literacy initiative. Data on student performance, school and community needs, school capacity, and teacher practices are helpful in developing an effective literacy action plan.
My literacy history has developed greatly through the years. This is my recording of reading and writing in the past, present, and future. My literature started with very simple children's stories and nursery rhymes. My parents would also tell me childhood stories of theirs, in which neither they or I can remember. Stories would be read to me at home or at my grandparents normally before bed.
I have been passionate about literacy from a young age through books, music and writing competitions. To me, literacy has the capability to empower individuals as being involved in literacy leaders allows younger pupils to understand literacy. Through my own research, I discovered that 99% of people living in the United Kingdom are literate, meaning that a small but significant 67800 UK citizens are illiterate. By assisting a small group of pupils in LGS with this through mentoring, it would help to enhance their self-esteem. Moreover, being a literacy leader means that you can nurture a culture of lifelong learning, as you are able to instil in others the curiosity and enthusiasm that drive continuous intellectual development.
Reading and writing influence the way that I interact with the world. I learn new things from reading and writing, which in turn help me communicate with others because I am learning new facts and skills. My relationship with literacy is a very close one. It's helped me in many areas of my life, such as being more social. Without literacy in my life, I don't know what I'd do.
Critical Commentary I choose to focus in on the impact reading instruction being implemented in Social Studies classrooms, since I am in a preservice teacher education program for Social Studies. With my prior knowledge of history and pedagogy for Social Studies, I felt that it would be a great topic to look into since Social Studies classrooms rely heavily on source documents offering making literacy skills critical in the subject. It is also a subject that offers many opportunities to strengthen reading and develop reading skills. Overall I wanted to know what benefits in any can come from having social studies educators offer literacy instruction within their classrooms.
For me, literacy has always been a problem to this day I am still learning how to speak, and write using proper literacy. Literacy is not just reading and writing, anyone can do that but the ability to understand such things, to comprehend them that is, true literacy. My development for literacy has always been a struggle as I have spoken about before. I had a speak impediment when I was younger which used me to go into different classes which took me away from formal English classes.
As I explore my experiences with literacy my most vivid memory comes from a very late age. While most people draw their memories with reading, writing from a young age, I get mine from my eighth grade year. As a student up until this point I had done just enough to get through the courses and move on to the next year. My eighth grade year seemed to be extremely challenging, and this was due to various factors whether it be the demographics of my school since I was one of three white people in my grade, or my home life where I was adjusting to a new house with a new step mom, but my English teacher had spent the whole year causing me a great deal of agony. Every paper I turned in, I failed, and every effort I made to step up my writing was not
