Prompt

Is literacy collaborative?

" One person, reading aloud, decodes the written text of the newspaper, brochure, set of instructions, etc. This level of extracting meaning from the text is taken as the basis for the move to the next level, that of relating the text's meaning to the experience of the members of the group. The experience of any one individual has to become common to the group, however, and that is done through the recounting of members' experiences. Such recountings tend to recreate the scenes, to establish the character of the individuals involved, and, to the greatest extent possible, to bring the audience into the experience itself. At the third level, there is an extension beyond the common experience to a reintegration. For example, what do both the text and the common relating of the text's meaning to experience say to the mother trying to decide how best to register her child for a daycare program? Together the group negotiates this third level." (Heath 462)

1) How does this process differ from the typical way we measure literacy in school?

2) Do each of the participants in this literacy event satisfy your definition of literacy? Why?

3) What makes this passage from Heath difficult to comprehend? What kind of literacy qualifies you to read and understand it?

Reading
making connections: text to self, text to text and text to world; multiple interpretations close reading - main idea and purpose and audience interpretation of non-literal devices, e.g irony, metaphor, analogies question validity and wondering about meaning persistence; multiple readings; looking deeper; multiple strategies reading outside comfort zone, such as canonical works reading like a writer, to understand and apply craft annotating reading for better comprehension critical analysis of reading critical vocabulary- academic discourse

Writing
critical reading of peer compositions using a writing process to clarify meaning use authentic rather than inflated language can make an assertion or take a position can discover when first person is appropriate recognize and use appropriate genre, style and audience use reflection in the writing process; self-evaluation understands when to edit and how to edit know the stylistic standards of the discipline and genre be willing to take risks take an objective stance toward your writing accept criticism employ sentence variety awareness of your own writing process participating in an academic conversation

Information Literacy
recognizing credibility in sources knowledge of search tools and resources knowing what is plagiarism paraphrasing and synthesizing giving credit to previous research understand purpose and method of citation