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6 Early Literacy Skills

• Print Motivation.
• Print Awareness.
• Letter Knowledge.
• Vocabulary.
• Narrative Skills.
• Phonological Awareness.

• Literacy Skills for Preschoolers. Print Awareness.
• Print Awareness. A child understands the nature and uses of printed words and books.
• Print Motivation. A child has interest and excitement about books.
• Phonological Awareness.
• Narrative Skills.
• Letter Awareness.
• Concepts.
• Vocabulary.

• Six Early Literacy Skills. Young children need a variety of skills to become successful readers.
• Vocabulary.
• Print Motivation.
• Print Awareness.
• Narrative Skills.
• Letter Knowledge.
• Phonological Awareness.

Tips on Teaching Literacy to Elementary Students

1. Time: spend more time on reading and writing.
2. Text: have lots of books for children to read.
3. Teach: actively teach useful strategies.
4. Talk: let students talk about how and what they are learning.
5. Task: give students longer assignments to build stamina, instead of short tasks.

Since adults use different kinds of printed and written materials in their daily lives, NAAL measures three types of literacy—prose, document, and quantitative—and reports a separate scale score for each of these three areas.

“New literacies” that arise from new technologies include things like text-messaging, blogging, social networking, podcasting, and videomaking. These digital technologies alter and extend our communication abilities, often blending text, sound, and imagery.

Scope of the Literacy capability Literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills students need to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information, make meaning, express thoughts and emotions, present ideas and opinions, interact with others and participate in activities at school and in their lives beyond school.

There are seven capabilities that underpin the SACE:

• literacy.
• numeracy.
• information and communication technology capability.
• creative and critical thinking.
• personal and social capability.
• ethical understanding, and.
• intercultural understanding.

Students that can’t read effectively fail to grasp important concepts, score poorly on tests and ultimately, fail to meet educational milestones. Literacy skills allow students to seek out information, explore subjects in-depth and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them.

A literacy-rich environment provides children with opportunities to use elements of literacy in functional ways. The provision of libraries or reading areas support children to enjoy reading independently, or with others.

Being literate means having the skills to be able to read, write and speak to understand and create meaning. While becoming literate is a central aim of English in secondary schools, the subject English and literacy are not the same.