Before my Teacher Education classes I thought of literacy as simply reading and writing. I can now say I believe that literacy is reading, writing, speaking and listening.
I can say that this is what literacy is too me from what I learned in these classes at MSU. TE 301 was the first time I realized that literacy has so many different components and that all of these components begin in children at a very young age. We only improve our literacy skills throughout grade school and college.
According to definition, to be literate means “able to read and write”. This directly connects with my original definition. While this may be the case, reading and writing have various skills within them that make reading and writing possible. When studying and practicing literature, we brush up on these skills only to make us better readers, writers, speakers and listeners.
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