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Literacy Timeline

By karenlevy96
  • 8000 BCE

    What is Literacy?

    Literacy can have many different definitions. It can just be the ability to read and write or it is known as knowledge and competence in a specific area.
  • 8000 BCE

    Prehistoric and ancient literacy

    Literacy can be the knowledge of numbers and script. Literacy goes as far back as 8000 BCE.
  • 2700 BCE

    Alphabet

    "The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker."
  • 1440

    Literacy Developments

    The printing press was invented and that showed a big advantage in reading and writing.
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    Literacy Developments

    Roussea who believed a child's education be natural, abandoning contrived instruction to Pestalozzi and Froebel who believed a child's education be natural with combining informal instruction.
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    Literacy Developments

    Roussea, Pestalozzi and Froebel created major developments involving literacy in the classrooms.
    Ex: Roussea said there should be little adult intervention
    Ex. Pestalozzi said children develop through sensory manipulative experiences
    Ex. Froebel believed in play learning.
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    Literacy Development

    Literacy development has changed throughout the years of education. We know have literacy development involving technology that they didn't have back in the 1700s.

  • No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

    The goal of this act is to provide all students with the necessary support to learn by well-prepared teachers. It was made to "level the playing field for disadvantaged students".

  • Third-Grade Reading Legislation

    Reading to learn rather than learning to read.
    "Several states have enacted legislation that requires students not reading proficiently by the end of third grade to be retained."

  • References

    Crabben, J. van der. (2019, August 27). Alphabet. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/alphabet/ Sitemap. (2017, October 28). 5 Trends in Literacy Education. Retrieved from https://www.bestvalueschools.com/lists/5-trends-in-literacy-education/ Ncsl.org. (2019). Third-Grade Reading Legislation. [online] Available at: http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/third-grade-reading-legislation.aspx [Accessed 1 Sep. 2019]. Historyguide.org. (2019). [online] Available at: http://www.historyguide.org