Defining Critical Aspects of Literacy | Origin: ED134
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Literacy is Not an Option --> Defining Critical Aspects of Literacy
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It is important for teaches to know the skill levels of their students.
I'm glad that this module emphasized the four main domains: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. For the students to evolve into professionals and leaders, they must be competent in each of these arenas to effectively express themselves.
I believe the separate disciplines need their own dedication, and most often they are mixed to prove comprehension.
Many times I have noticed students too busy writing down notes and failing to actively listen to a presentation. In order to avoid this, telling the students they will recieve study material after the discussion often settles students into active listening; more so if I follow up with brief questions frequently.
Writing and speaking are my favourites for gaging comprehension.
I find writing is the most difficult discipline to incorporate because not everyone's background is the same.
I love how the lesson shows us how the four parts, reading, writing, speaking, and listening all work cohesively in the comprehension process. We must encourage our students to read our content, but also take notes to enhance the learning of new material. But they also must listen to the teacher during the lesson and be able to speak to (or repeat) in their own words what the lesson was about to ensure they have an understanding of the content.
I thought the most enlightening information was the "don't make assumptions about what adult students know or understand." I teach college students, and even the most advanced students are still learning. Proofreading is big in my courses, so I make sure I explain an error so my students can understand why and how they made a typo or grammatical error so they can avoid them in the future. I always provide explanation to grades or when students lose points, so they can see where they can improve for the next assesment.
Seeing the diagram of how the input of reading writing and listing creates a varied output is eyeopening. I never thought about it in those terms.
Literacy is so important to the development of young adults.
It takes reading, writing, listening and speaking to be sucessful learners. There is a reason why we have two eyes, two ears and two hands, but only one mouth to use as we learn.
Students need to learn writing mehanics and sentence structure for better reading comprension.
Active listening and comprehension is key.
The process of listening, speaking, reading, and writing all play a key part in understanding the material . The speaking and writing part of this lets the teacher know the level of understanding that the student has of the material.
Reading, writing and listening is important to the overall learning process
Active listening skills are important and shouls be emphasized.
The variety of information flow input and output for students can be used to differentiate classwork in order for the students to improve their literacy at their own pace. Input options include Visual, Text, and Sound. The output consists of Mixed, Media, and Output.
Active listening is important in all classes.
The four components are all important to literacy and to the classroom. Active listening strategies are helpful to ensure reading comprehension.
Speaking is necessary for some students to process and understand the topic being learned.
It takes writing, listening, reading and speaking to have successful learners.
All four components, writing, listening, reading, and speaking, are important components to literacy and to the classroom. I find it important to consistently ask what the students think and feel about a given topic. I dont want to just rely on passive listening, but active participation that includes all aspects of literacy.
