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3000 BCE
What is literacy in education?
Literacy is defined as “the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, compute, and communicate using visual, audible, and digital materials across disciplines and in any context.” -
3000 BCE
Origins of literacy
The origins of literacy can be traced back to southern Mesopotamia circa 3,000 BCD. -
1000 BCE
The Creation of the Alphabet
The symbols in the Phoenician system, which was the earliest alphabetic system, stood for individual letters or sounds rather than entire words. Since nothing else could have happened in the history of reading and writing without it, this milestone is extremely significant. -
Tactile Literacy
These days, teachers include movement into their lesson plans to help every student learn in an efficient manner. Given that integrating literacy education with physical activity improves memory and helps kids retain new information, this is highly beneficial. New approaches are emerging, such teaching students to spell words in clay, having them trace letters in shaving cream, reading aloud from flashcards, and having them dance as they recite words. -
Media Literacy
Instruct students to evaluate the reliability of the material they read by asking questions. Students are taught to focus on the methods by which the events described in the media sources came to pass, as opposed to the content itself. They learn to read and write critically as a result of this. -
Louise Rosenblatt
Louise Rosenblatt is most well-known for her literary "reader response" hypothesis. Reading is a dynamic interaction between the reader and the text, where readers' own careful and imaginative readings give rise to important ideas for them. -
Denny Taylor
The goal of family literacy researcher and author Denny Taylor's work was to characterize family practices. In 1997, she initially used the term "family literacy." -
2023 Law
"Requires all K-5 teachers to take a professional learning course in the science of reading, and creates a state fund for school districts seeking to adopt evidence-based materials" -
Science of Reading Law
To prepare educators to know what literacy skills to teach, the background research supporting those methods, and the best ways to teach them, the law mandated that all K–3 teachers receive intensive literacy training known as Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS). -
APA Resources
Shook, J. R. (2019, April 24). Louise Rosenblatt. obo. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780190221911/obo-9780190221911-0077.xml -
APA Resources
5 trends in Literacy Education - Best Value Schools. BestValueSchools. (2022, December 1). https://www.bestvalueschools.com/lists/trends-in-literacy-education/ -
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Principles of Family Literacy. Saskatchewan Literacy Network. (n.d.). https://saskliteracy.ca/SLN-Principles-of-Family-Literacy -
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Ashworth, L. (n.d.). Sutori. https://www.sutori.com/en/story/history-of-literacy-instruction-timeline--RNQBSeSQzc87fbSqeEgukqFZ -
APA Resources
Mgt. (2024, January 24). Districts must adapt to science of reading legislation. MGT. https://www.mgtconsulting.com/insights/science-of-reading-legislation/#:~:text=For%20many%20states%2C%20this%20legislation,are%20identified%20as%20at%2Drisk. -
APA Resource
The evolution of literacy education: UT Permian Basin Online. UTPB. (2021, January 7). https://online.utpb.edu/about-us/articles/education/the-evolution-of-literacy-education/