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Literacy is Not an Option --> Defining Critical Aspects of Literacy

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Leanring about how students communicate differently can help me relate the content to them 

I've found that literacy is an somewhat rejected concept among my students. Listening, reading, and comprehending reading is considered to be a burden. Students often ask' "Does spelling count, Mr. Perkins?" I have worked hard to help my woodworking students overcome their hatred of literacy. It's amazing how my students suddenly become very literate when they perform written assessments of their work. BINGO! A form of literacy participation!

To meet diverse learning needs, instructors should be innovative in their activities, planning, and assessment. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are all part of literacy development. 

These are essential for life and career readiness.

reading, writing, speaking, and listening are essential to learning

In this module, I learned that listening and speaking work together to deepen understanding. Encouraging students to speak helps them process and apply information, while active listening focuses on both words and intended meaning.

There should be enough variation in learning activities, projects, assessments, and inputs/outputs/productions that each literacy skill is practiced and improved throughout

Literacy includes Reading, writing. speaking and listening. Some of my difficulties in class is having students speaking and giving feedback

Critical aspects of literacy: The foundational elements that anablesomeoneto read, write, and comunicate effectively. These aspects are often emphasized in education, especially in early learning and literacy development

Literacy is taught in all courses through reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Literacy includes: reading, writing, listening, and understanding.

Literacy is holistic. Listening, reading, speaking, and writing are required for comprehension. 

Learning to read and comprehend in a different language (say, French) is a good exercise to improve your native-language skills (say, English) in those areas, too.

Literacy skills include listening, speaking, reading, and writing, the speaking and taking notes is what usually keeps students engaged and attentive. 

There are four areas of literacy: reading, speaking, writing and listening that are linked to comprehension.  Some students may need to talk to listen.

Reading, writing, listening and speaking is so essential and a must for our students to express and work through the lessons. I struggle with a majority of my students not having these essential skill sets. They will also need these skills to carry into their careers. We want to build them to success. I work closely with councilors and general ed teachers to help them.

Literacy skills are so intertwined.

Literacy includes Comprehension. This really stuck out to me because so much of the words that come out of our mouths is just responses we have grown comfortable with giving to certain questions or statements. Its easy to forget to slow down and really listen and understand before responding.

To try to find ways to make sure students are actually listening and comprehending. We have an orientation where my entire program is explained in pretty good detail. They also have access to TAs and Aides, if they have questions. Despite this, they still say things like, "I didn't know I was supposed to do that!" They often go away angry in an attempt to blame me when it was clearly their fault since much of the time I know for a fact that it was covered beforehand and or they have written instructions explaining the requirements. It really does underscore the population I work with (adult felons) why they are in prison; usually for not paying attention or not taking responsibility for doing things correctly.

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