 Literacy  Cronin (2014), literacy is the ability to

decode text and to produce text to make

meaning.
 Both a science and a skill.
 UNESCO 2003-Literacy is a continuum of
learning enabling individuals to achieve
their goals, to develop their knowledge
and potential, and to participate fully in
their community and wider society.

 Traditional/Conventional
 quality of being literate; knowledge of
literacy letters; condition in respect to education,
specifically refers to reading and writing
that follow the form, content, and use of
standard conventions (Koppenhaver,
2000).
 ability to access and express information
through both reading and writing.
-does not mean reading and writing in their
simplest forms. Instead, it means being able to
access written works in such a way as to achieve a
level of understanding that allows critical
thinking.
 According to the National Reading Panel
report (NRP; NICHD, 2000), in order to
produce and understand conventional
literacy an individual must develop
phonemic awareness, phonics,
vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension
of connected text.

 21st Century Literacy

 The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
 collection of many higher order skills.
 more than just reading and writing. It is
knowing how to learn and know.

Critical features of 21st Century

Education:

1. Integrated and disciplinary lesson is link to other disciplines or to

life-experiences.

Learners are techno-savvy.

2. Technologies and
multimedia.

With global classrooms, learners’ diversity has

3. Global classrooms. increased. Thus the need to integrate respect for
all people regardless of creed, culture, color in all
lessons.
TRADITIONAL LITERACY AND ITS
TYPES:
abilities to read, write and do basic arithmetic or
numeracy
1. Basic Literacy
Barton (2006) - the notion of basic literacy is used
for the initial learning of reading and writing
which are applicable to all areas of instruction;
and focus on low-level literacy instruction; for
example, decoding words or teaching basic
sentence structures.
What are the three basic literacy skills?
a. Ability to read with comprehension
b. Ability to compute simple equations
c. Creative thinking and problem-solving

2. Comprehension Literacy
understanding and interpretation of what is read.
Six Levels of Comprehension:
1. Literal is the understanding of
information and facts directly stated in
the text.
2. Inferential is the ability to process written
information and understand the
underlying meaning of the text.
3. Appreciative is the ability to comprehend
author’s point of view, purpose, tone,
4. Critique is the ability to make decisions
 or making judgements
5. Evaluative comprehension requires the
reader to move beyond the text to
consider what they think and believe in
relation to the message in the text.
6. Essential is the ability to look at the big
ideas and themes from text or look at the
world view

reading and writing linked to everyday tasks

. It means a literacy that measures ability to
3. Functional or Practical
perform tasks to function effectively.
Literacy for effective functioning and development of the
individual and the community.

21ST Century Literacy and Its

Types:
 Globalization is the process of interaction
1. Globalization and Multicultural and integration among people,
companies and governments worldwide.
 Global Literacy aims to empower
students with knowledge and take action
to make a positive impact in the world
and their local community ( Guo,2014).
 Multicultural Literacy consist of the skills
and ability to identify the creators of
knowledge and their interests, to uncover
the assumptions of knowledge, to view
knowledge from diverse ethnic and
cultural perspective, and to use
knowledge guided action that will create
a humane and just world (Boutte,2006).
Multicultural Literacy then brings
attention to diversity, equity and social
justice to foster cultural awareness by
addressing difficult issues like
discrimination and oppression towards
other ethnicities.

For a person to be socially literate, she must

2. Social Literacy possess communication skills, emotional
intelligence and customer service skills.

provides a framework to access, analyze and

 3. Media Literacy evaluate, create, reflect and act on messages in a
variety of forms- from print to video to the
internet.

Integrating Media Literacy Across the Curriculum

1. Teaching with media and technology 2. Making
connections with out-of-school literacies 3.
Developing information access and research skills
4. Strengthening message analysis skills 5.
Composing messages using multimedia 6.
Exploring media issues in Society 7. Sharing ideas
and taking action

Types of Media:
books • newspapers • magazines
-PRINT movies • television shows
-IMAGE radio • music
-SOUND videogames • internet • email & CP
-DIGITAL

understands how you can build your personal

4. Financial Literacy wealth.

Five Core Competencies of Financial Literacy:

refers to bringing money home from a job
 Earning
deals with the understanding of financial
institutions and services available to you.
 Saving and Investing
personal reflection of your values, lifestyle, and
 Spending your financial behavior.

acquiring debt to create assets.

 Borrowing
deals with insurance, ID theft, and retirement
 Protecting planning

the ability to use computer technologies

5. Cyber/Digital Literacy effectively and to simultaneously understand the
implications of those actions.
Four Principles of Digital Literacy:
This principle is simply the ability to extract
A. Comprehension implicit and explicit ideas from a media.

It is how one media form connects with another,

whether potentially, metaphorically, ideally, or
B. Interdependence.
literally.

Sharing is no longer just a method of personal

C. Social Factors identity or distribution, but rather can create
messages of its own.

Speaking of storing, overt storage of favored

D. Curation
content through platforms such as pinterest.
the ability to understand the value of
information, and keep it in a way that makes it
accessible and useful long term.

refers to the ability to understand the interactions

between human systems – transportation,
6. Eco-literacy
energy, building, commerce and industry and
natural systems.

a concept that looks beyond sitting with a

7. Arts and creativity literacy book.an activity that on the surface doesn’t even
look like it’s related to literacy or learning to read