Essays on Literacy Skills

My literacy skills have been very instrumental in the achievement of personal goals and accomplishments. Despite the many instances that these skills have come to my rescue, the most significant and memorable incident is during my college application. Apart from my high school qualifications and extra-curricular achievements, the application required me to submit a statement of purpose illustrating my interests and goals in the literature undergraduate program at Georgetown University. Although I was an exceptional student, the last two years of my high school education were laden with disruptions and struggles that affected my academic and extra-curricular performance adversely. ...

The purpose is to explain the definitions of the different environment resources, including renewable, non-renewable, and continuous resources.

Text Type: Description Expected Text Structure: General statement- provides a general and simplified statement introducing or identifying the phenomenon and gives an introduction to core concepts that will be addressed Sequenced statements- provide evidence that supports the writer's position based on explaining the phenomenon in relation to the subject of the text.

Concluding statement- highlights the major points used to support author’s ideas about the topic.

Expected Language Features: Explanation text is meant to establish that the phenomenon is present and then there is an explanation on how this came to be. The text involves a clear sequencing and clarity so that it is easy to follow for the readers. Explanation texts have ...

Information Literacy: Scholarship Practice and Leadership

Information Literacy: Scholarship Practice and Leadership Leaders face significant challenges in trying to understand and manage complexities of dynamic individuals and groups in an organization. However, with daily observable behavior and practice of leaders that are in line with information literacy, it is possible for leaders to rely on personal and professional competence to integrate feedback from the dynamic workforce and their research to create positives outcomes in the organization. Uniting dynamic groups in an organization calls for disciplined employees, and information literacy plays a big part in it. Turusheva (2009), urges that everyone at professional and personal level ...

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Introduction The diversity of students in the elementary classroom posits concerns about providing instruction to embrace multiculturalism. Teaching standard American English takes precedence, and teachers should promote this way of African American students acquiring the language skills. Nonetheless, teachers should recognize their young students’ language peculiarities of Ebonics despite the negative connotations attached to it. Specifically, many people interpret Ebonics disapprovingly due to a corrupt form of English (Ramirez, Wiley, Klerk, Lee, & Wright, 2005, p. 41). This is the reason why both school teachers and ...

Audience Analysis: My audience will be made up of three adults and will, therefore, be able to critically weigh up my argument in a diplomatic way. Psychologically, they should be more advanced than a younger audience and may, therefore, be more able to assess my thinking in a more rounded manner.

Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about the critical status of literacy amongst young people today and to persuade them to my view that this will, ultimately, have a devastating effect on society as a whole and that the government must make more efforts to address this decline in standards.

Redemptive ...

The study examines the efficacy of a professional development program for early childhood educators that facilitate emergent literary skills in preschoolers. The program led by a speech-language pathologist, focuses on teaching print concepts, de contextualized oral language, teaching alphabet knowledge within natural occurring classroom interactions. A child with special needs will flourish and benefit from an early childhood environment to empower learning. Center learning empowers a child to engage in the self-directed learning based on ability, interest, and strength actively. Centre learning will enhance interactive language, collaboration, independence, reading, and writing. All of the empowering areas of development relate strongly with the ...

Intervention Strategy

The proposed intervention strategy is centered on improving English language proficiency within the Gulfton community. The premise behind this strategy is that improved language proficiency will facilitate better communication skills that will lead to (better) employment, improved knowledge around legal status and rights, better healthcare and other amenities, and improved outcomes relative to children’s education.

This is a multifaceted strategy that aims to reach out to multiple groups of residents. In laying out an intervention strategy it is highly important to determine up front how to articulate a plan, implementation, refinement, etc. This will be laid in greater detail in ...

Introduction

Canada has over time been attracting a high number of immigrants each year. This number has also been increasing each year (Reitz, 2005). About 20% of the country’s population is made up of foreigners. Based on the data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the annual immigration flow of the country is now one of the highest among the OECD members. For example, in the year 2011, the country received some 249,000 new immigrants, which was more than the number it received in 2010 (281,000). The two main cited reasons for this immigration are job ...

Introduction

Reading is the most essential skill a student should acquire. Strong literacy skills are vital to a student’s educational success and their overall success in life. Regarding the importance of English, Arabic students must learn to read and comprehend more quickly, read critically analyze any written information. Despite living in a digital era, the Arabic students still need literacy skills to succeed in the field of education (Mutawa & Kailani, 2009). Instructors must learn to share enthusiastically a variety of genres, topics, and styles with the students to improve their understanding and make them enjoy life (Zemelman, 1998). There are certain skills and ...

According to Hillman, Pictorial or wordless books contain pictures and pure illustrations in a volume that illustrates it all; “tell it all”. However, certain wordless books have minimal wording and labels. Others have phrases and single sentences alongside the illustrations (Hillman, 2010). These books comprise all genes; fiction, poetry, fantasy, biography and nonfiction. Such is a sample of books fellow learners, and I used to aid our understanding of the content of what is taught by the teacher (Wendy, Janice, Amy & Abigail, 2011). We actively participated and fully concentrated on what was taught by our teacher through graphical representations that were ...

Introduction

Slavery remains as one of the widely discussed topic in history. This can be accredited to the fact that the slavery period is a remarkable period in history. While much has been hypothesized regarding the slavery, it is of the essence to note that its scope dates back to the close of the year 1619. This is the year when the first crop of African slaves were shipped into Virginia in North America. Many at times, these slaves were “acquired” to serve various roles, particularly assisting in activities aligned with cash crop production. It is imperative to note that after ...

Introduction

Family literacy regards to various programs designed to enhance the literacy skills in the families. The concept also includes a collection of interventions that relate to the development of literacy in young children (Britto & Brooks-Gunn, 2001). Family literacy captures various academic traditions like adult literacy, English as a second language education, child literacy, early childhood development, parent education among others. On the other hand, adult education refers to instructions and support services to persons who are of 16 years and above and are not enrolled or are supposed to be enrolled to a postsecondary school (Wasik et al., 2000).

Summary of the services provided by “Illinois Adult Education and Family Literacy Program”

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Describe your literacy practices today

These are skills that equip a student with a wealth of knowledge via means of writing as well as developing technology and media. Also, the knowledge can be acquired through reading.

Uses of literacy skills in my normal day activities.

Information Literacy. As a student to be able to do my work effectively, I require to possess necessary literacy skills that will help me in grasping all my academic information. These skills include; understanding, application, analyzing, evaluation and creativity. In gaining information literacy one needs to gains insight into areas such as research and writing. To be able to utilize information literacy there is the need to fully understand two ...

Parental involvement refers to the spontaneous contributions of parents towards children learning both at home and in the formal programs that aim at enhancing the child’s literacy during school and pre-school years. There is a variation in the views of researchers on the ways in which the home environment influences children’s’ performance in school, the degree to which parents should get involved and the effectiveness of parents’ intervention. Strategies involving support and training for parents such as paired reading have been highly regarded as most effective (Aram and Ofra 118). Parental involvement on children’s learning is linked ...

Language, Literacy and Universal Education

Describe what your literacy and language program would look like in your kindergarten classroom based on your reading assignments (4 pages) Introduction Upon reading the two specific materials, “The Essentials of Early Literacy Instruction” by Kathleen A. Roskos, James F. Christie, and Donald J. Richgels and “Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children” by The International Reading Association and the National Association for the Education of the Young Children, this paper details significant and specific literacy and language development programs which are deemed most effective in the more globally demanding literacy needs of ...

“Second language acquisition is the process by which people learn a second language” (Rathod, 2012). When it comes to learning a new language, some persons will learn quickly and effortlessly, while others will have great difficulty. Many people have learnt a second language while in school, and knows that in order for them to successfully learn a second language they had to work hard and be determined and persistent in their efforts. But even as everyone gave their best effort in learning a new language the results varied across the student body. This variance is due to the fact that successfully acquiring a second language ...

Complexities of service provision in nursing

Integrated pre-diabetes management prevents the development of type 2 diabetes. In essence, pre diabetes is characterized by high blood glucose levels than normal but not enough to be classified as diabetes (Barnett 2010). The increasing number of pre diabetes cases is a worldwide concern on healthcare. First, if pre-diabetes is undiagnosed, it develops into type 2 diabetes. For example, in the United Kingdom pre diabetes has affected more than seven million people thus they have high chances of developing type 2diabetes. Most, the condition develops without symptoms. The recognized diagnostic tests for pre-diabetes include fasting plasma glucose and oral glucose ...

Teaching children to communicate

1. How do young children develop language from birth to age 8? Children develop language through imitation and physical environment interaction. At the age of two to three, children tend to ape adults’ behaviour, in relation to communication and culture. Additionally, children at this age require maximum support from the guardians in an effort of initiating language through the use of words. At five years, children develop a variety of language skills through talking, singing and reading. Children, at the age of eight, possess complex language skills acquired from reading and basic education. 2. What are the effective strategies ...

Literacy is one of the major issues that are recognized today in the world. It is worth noting that the aspect of literacy is linked to various issues in society. The literacy skills are a crucial pre-requisite to success. The literacy issues go beyond the understanding of decoding words and reading texts, it entails the ability to use literacy skill to comprehend global knowledge and synthesize information from various sources (Wasik, 2012). There are various literacy problems and issues in South Africa that can be compared with other nations. There is growing demand for diverse literacy skills. In South Africa, ...

Introduction

People’s culture defines their ways of life and the activities they engage in daily. However, the culture of a group of people also determines the interactions they have with the society and the rhythm of life. It is easy for cultural differences to create a good rhythm in life when people learn to acknowledge the diversity as strength while some people may view it as a source of conflict in a society.“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down “by Anne Fadiman is an example of how cultural differences affect the whole society in all aspects (Fadiman, 1998). However, when we ...

The ability to read and write as a child is influenced by very many factors. The influence of the parents on the literacy acquisition of children is impregnable. I grew up in a middle income family. As the child of a teacher, my mother placed a lot of emphasis on education for me and my siblings. My mother modeled me when I was growing up to be able to read and write. It was during these sessions that I was taught culture and mannerisms. When I look back, my parents had an undue influence on my literacy acquisition skills (Hall, Joanne & Jackie 56). ...

According to the National Literacy Act of 1991, literacy is defined as “an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak in English, and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society to achieve one’s goals, and develop one’s knowledge and potential” (National Literacy Act of 1991, Sec. 3). However, in today’s world literacy is far more than just reading and writing; it includes attaining proficiency in technology and gain a deep understanding of all forms of information (En Gauge, 2003). As an individual living at full fast ...

The world we are living today involves much technology that requires us to share our thoughts and situations with the world. It has become a daily routine among people to get up every day and share our experiences with millions of people across the world on how we spend our lives. Social networks such as twitter, Facebook, MySpace just to mention but a few enable us to connect with the world and find out what is happening. On a day to day activities people read about new developments and things that happen in their lives and end up writing about it in ...

Literacy can be described as the ability to read and write. It can generate much discussion as those people who cannot read and write may also have knowledge in other fields where reading and writing is not required. However, one can be said to be literate when has acquired the necessary knowledge and skills to enable him do his activities effectively. It is through the knowledge acquired that literacy is connected to the ability of reading and writing. For example, for one to develop his literacy skills, he needs to read more to gather knowledge. This is only possible ...

Literacy is one of the areas of childhood development, which is considered as a barometer used to gauge future development and aptitude of the child. Generally, the goal of literacy instruction is for teachers to synchronize the early literacy approaches to engage children and also to offer a strong foundation for the children's literacy skills. Literacy development in young children has been viewed as a complex and dynamic process that requires input from all concerned stakeholders so as to ensure that a child acquires the right skills. Literacy development is therefore concerned about issues such as listening, reading, speaking, writing and even viewing, and ...

Becoming literate is one culmination of a very long and creative practice. This is done by responding to both the external and internal motivations. In this process skills that are new are acquired and then layered to the skills that are secure. Some of the skills that are acquired are terminated after they have done their duty of scaffolding new learning. According to Clay 1, some of the skills acquired remain dormant, and wait when they are required probably when reading and writing becomes challenging. The skills are intertwined organically and this aids in creating a firm base for decoding and ...

- Analysis of data The action research study addresses the following research questions: what is the effect of critical viewing on the acquisition of literacy skills? Does critical viewing assist in better retention and application of literal terminology as compared to the traditional mode of learning? The data collected in the survey that was conducted in the fall and spring of 2003 answers the first research question. During this survey, 64 twelfth grade students were asked to identify the medium that assisted them to recall the facts more easily. The students were drawn from the traditional English course ...

I intend to provide a print rich environment. According to Strickland & Schickedanz (2009), it is important for children to have a print rich environment in the classroom. Children should be able to interact with print material such as logos and labels that are in the children’s lives. As a teacher, I will provide an environment in which print material is available to the children. According to the text, children who are able to understand how print is used in their lives are more likely to be curious about learning words as well as letters. Therefore, it is important to provide a print ...

Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose is an educational life story. The book begins with his early childhood and tracks him up to his mature days. Mike was born to an immigrant family from Italy. He spent his early childhood days in the mid-west before moving to East Los Angeles with his parents. Mike Rose did not come from a high class nor a well educated background. Both of Mike’s parents had never even stepped into a high school. Certainly no one in his family had ever gone to college. This book portrays the background, setting, and characteristics of Mike’ ...

The definition of “a liberal course of study” is a difficult thing to pin down. The phrase seems to come up often, even to the point of overuse, without specific explanation. Historically, a liberal education was only available to the wealthy. A gentleman was free to explore the truths of the world for no reason other than the love of learning. There was no expectation, no standardized test to evaluate his progress. It was a labor of love, but it was a lifestyle that only non-laborers could afford. Ironically, Rose proposes this same ideal in his book, Lives on the Boundary as a way to ...

Central issues

The question as to whether television is a tool critical for aiding the acquisition of knowledge has been the subject of debate among scholars. Some scholars argue that television is a hindrance to the process of learning hence should be left out of the learning set up. In a seminal review on the role of media in education, one scholar points out that media is not a determinant of the outcomes of learning rather the content presented is what determines the learning outcomes. He concludes his research in stating that the media is basically “ a mere vehicle of delivery” hence it does not determine ...

The paper ‘Learning Disabilities and Young Children: Identification and Intervention’ focuses on the identification of learning disabilities in children at an early age (i.e. from birth through about four years of age) and using effective instructional programs to promote development. Research has shown that intervention efforts are most effective during the critical period of pre-kindergarten years and they are important to establish a learning climate for students. An instructional program is most effective if it is based on a child’s needs and strengths, and also based on current research. Besides having well-defined goals and objectives, it should be based ...

This is a quantitative study using descriptive statistics on principals’ perceptions of the role of speech pathologists in elementary schools. The project will involve interviews with principals from traditional public schools. The researcher will transcribe the interviews and use descriptive statistics to look for common strands in the principals’ perceptions. The study will be organized around a description of the speech pathologist’s role, personal attributes needed for the job of the principal and the speech language pathologist, and support given to principals by the special education department.

Background

A study by Sanger, Hux, and Griess in 1995 examined educators’ opinions of ...

Skill development for workers with low literacy and numeracy levels

Question 1: Write a brief overview of the issue and describe the problems and challenges arising from the issue

In Australia, the prevalence of employees who have low numeracy and literacy skills is high, and it depends on the sector or industry. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (2012) revealed that about 7million of workers in Australia had literacy problems, below the minimum expected for normal work functions. Also, 7.9 million had problems with numeracy skills, meaning that such workers keep holding Australia back. This means that most of the occupations or fields have got workers with low skills in numeracy ...

Adult Learners and Online Education

Introduction The adult online education has become a very popular system of education among the adults. The paper will outline the principles which govern online adult education and challenges, which adult learners encounter when taking online courses. The paper also will explore the reasons why adults’ learners prefer taking online courses over the formal education and reasons why some adult learners drop online courses after they have started. Lastly the paper will discuss the strategies needed to be implemented in order for the learners to succeed in their education and meet their needs (Coben, 2000).

Adult Learning Principles

The adult online education ...

Define information literacy

Notably, information literacy is no longer a library issue alone. In the twenty-first century, it has become a critical issue in both professional life, careers and student life. In fact it is of great importance to media, administrations, technologists, educational stakeholders, career development as well as students affairs. Information literacy is the ability to evaluate access, organize, as well as use information from a wide array of sources. According to ALA (American Library Association) information literacy is the ability to be acquainted with when information is needed, locate it, evaluate, and efficiently use it. Explain why the specific skills required for a ...

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness can be taught to and learnt by children who do not have an instinctive understanding. This can be done through a variety of methods including phoneme isolation, phoneme identity, phoneme categorisation, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, phoneme deletion, phoneme addition and phoneme substitution – all methods which involve the child addressing the logistics of phonemic awareness in a practical way.

Phonemic awareness instruction can help a child to read through improving their ability to recognise and comprehend words and their meanings. It is recognised that for children who are learning to read, fluency is often a difficult skill to learn and phonemic awareness ...

Critically reflect on

How they match with the skills and abilities which employers seek

What steps you should do in order to develop those skills

In terms of the abilities and skills that are valued by employers I believe two areas of my existing skills stand out: my communication and literacy skills and my positive attitude. My communication skills are especially strong, partly because I speak more than one language fluently – my native Polish and the English I have learnt in order to gain a good degree from an English university. But these skills also have breadth: I have successfully trained other staff, but I am equally adept at discussions involving colleagues and at presentations ...