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LITERACY SKILLS IN ENGLISH - Coggle Diagram
LITERACY SKILLS IN ENGLISH
Literacies and literacy skills
Literacy skills are considered the ability to read and write different types of texts and for different purposes. There are 7 different types of literacy skills:
Traditional Alphabetic Literacy
Computer Literacy
Network Literacy
Media Literacy
Visual Literacy
Cultural Literacy
Library Instruction
Reading as dependent on visual, phonological and semantic information
Reading, writing and speaking are strongly interconnected.
Writers make sure their readers can understand their ideas.
Readers make use of visual information from written symbols to understand and interpret what is written.
Reading can produce speaking through the use of phonological and semantic information about words and symbols.
How skilled readers operate
These are the levels (or scales) that a reader follows to be able to comprehend a text:
CONTEXT
TEXT
PARAGRAPH
SENTENCE / CLAUSE
WORD
MORPHEMES
SYLLABLES
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They are the components of a word which have meaning.
They conform the main units of a text.
Short pieces of text that can be recognized immediately for the reader when they appear together.
Opening sentence that provides a gist of the content of the text.
Traditional form in which text is organized in books or other texts.
It can be any source of information that comes from the real world.
The unnatural demands of literacy
Most children need professional instruction to help them become literate.
Originally, spoken language was used to convey ideas and meaning. After that, different written languages appeared to represent talk.
In English, the written and spoken forms are not equivalent.
Different genres have appeared with their own characteristics that represent a challenge for children.
Social context is also another important factor. While speaking, children can interact with people close to their social context, but a written text can be far removed from the children's context.