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 * Welcome to the wonderful world of Literacy ! **

// What is literacy? //

Literacy is the ability to share and make meaning by constructing and interpreting texts. It is used to develop knowledge and understanding, to achieve personal growth and to function effectively in our society. Literacy also includes the understanding of the relationship between text and context and involves the integration of speaking, listening, and critical thinking with reading and writing.

Children come from diverse backgrounds, which affect their ability to read and write. They are constantly building on and adapting new things around them. By actively engaging in this process, they refine and increase their understandings of the world. Children who engage in many conversations, who have been read to, and who can read and write after the early years at school are on the way with literacy learning, although each child will be at an individual level of literacy development.

Caring teachers need to be sensitive to the literacy needs of their students. By participating in an exciting language program across the curriculum, and with effective assessment tasks, children will develop further as readers and writers. With teacher support, children will develop an enthusiastic attitude towards learning. They will develop into effective communicators and independent readers and writers.