It is hard for me to come up with one definition for literacy because I think literacy can be a number of things combined. If you were to have asked me what literacy was before becoming a te major I would have probably just said the ability for someone to read and write and that's it. Knowing what I know now about literacy, it is a number of different things all combined into one. Literacy is the combination of reading, writing, speaking, drawing and it can include specific things such a phonological awareness, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary.
In my kindergarten placement my ct makes literacy a huge focus in her classroom. Her goal is to get the kids starting to recognize and read letter sounds, and also to be able to draw and express their ideas along with written words in their stories. Although my ct sets aside time to specifically work on literacy, she also includes literacy throughout their entire time in the classroom. They have writing workshop in the morning, and then during centers they will have a library center and if they aren't doing one of those they are getting a story read to them which is also a part of literacy. It is clear to see that "literacy" is not only just the ability to read and write but it is so much more.
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