Literacy Communication Skills

Have you ever had to communicate important information to a diverse group of people you share unique working relationships with? Carrying the responsibility of managing the day to day operation of a fifty five million dollar medical Distribution Company forces me into communication instances which require care and precision for effective delivery. As an Operations Leader, I am responsible for delivering information to a large group of diverse individuals serving several different employment roles. Even though the audience is not responding audibly, as the presenter, I must communicate through a through a transactional communication model, meaning that, “I must communicate simultaneously with my

One of the most eye opening experiences of my life occurred in the second grade. I would have never thought that doing one simple assignment in elementary school could change my whole perspective on literacy. My understanding of literacy was sparked when I had read my first real book. I remember sitting down on the vividly colorful carpet day dreaming about playing Mario Cart on my Nintendo 64 while everyone was obediently listening to the teacher read a book out loud. It wasn’t that I did not know how to read or listen, I just didn’t care. Reading to me used to be tedious because I did not understand the purpose of it. I did not grow up with the luxury of my parents reading to me because they weren’t literate in English, so I had to figure out for myself why literacy is vital in everyday life. My ongoing learning experience with literacy can be traced back to one simple visit to library.

Through my English classes I began to learn to not just regurgitate the information, but began to start writing like I was talking to someone in front of me. I enjoyed this this form of writing to be able express my thoughts and opinions. When I got to the more advanced classes of my psychology degree I needed to write papers in a more professional and informational style. It would be an understatement if I said this didn’t murder my creative writing spirit. I would have to revise my papers time and time again to cut out my own personal

My writing abilities have gotten me by in the business environments that I have found myself in. That being said, I lack skill in formal writing. Because I took a clep test that exempted me from English Composition I and II in college, my experience in writing has been limited over the past four years. Furthermore, my major, Geomatics, does not demand a large amount of technical writing which has further limited my exposure to technical writing

At Brockton High School in Brockton, Massachusetts, the school put forth an initiative to integrate literacy-related instructional strategies across all content areas. This school-wide instructional goal has attributed to the overall boost to student achievement. The leadership team at Brockton High School recognized that changing the school culture would require the adults on campus to re-evaluate curriculum and instructional strategies.`Moreover, changing the mindset of school requires an examination of data to determine the area of need. The leadership at Brockton recognized that the greatest gaps in student achievement stem from the lack of literacy skills. With the use of content-specific information, literacy skills such as reading, writing,

Purpose – how will this experience meet the needs and interests of the children? How will this experience contribute to the child(ren)’ emerging literacy skills

But at the end, there will be always the light of glory. Even though some disappointments will discourage me, and the others will tell me to stop, I will never give up to do what I need to succeed. Nowadays the world is rapidly changing; therefore, better communication and information skills are required. Literacy is more than just a word and meaning, it is important because it affects people's’ lives directly, impacting their chances of employment, level of income and type of occupation.

My experience in writing is rather slim, and primarily for the sole purpose of communicating with fellow colleagues and clients for business needs. Conversely, I have been commended for my writing skills. Prior to college, I never analyzed my writing process, I just did what came natural. Nevertheless, I believe my process begins by jotting down my thoughts, with no rhyme or reason; I lay them out, then begin fitting them together like puzzle pieces of a complete message. I rewrite my paragraphs accordingly, so my message flows flawlessly. Writing, as in responding to emails, comes rather easily to me; with content of familiarity. I purposefully clean up my writings for grammar, spelling, the removal of filler words, and to place transitional

There are three important frameworks teachers should think about when developing lesson plans. The first one is literacy lesson format. This format has three different steps, which include: introducing the text, reading and responding to the text and extending the text. When introducing the text the student previous knowledge should be activated about the subject and the students should develop their own purpose for reading the text. When responding to the text students should do this over the course of the reading. By the end they should be able to go back and summarize what they read while answering any questions they may have acquired while reading. Finally the students should extend the text by making personal connections with the text

In chapter nine you get into the development of language and communication skills, which is a difficult concept in the beginning for the mothers and daughters. At first, the mothers and daughters didn’t have the best communication skills due to the conflicts they went through. Although, when it comes to the resolutions of their problems, the mothers use semantics and syntax to give what they say meaning. Their daughters want to understand their mothers, at the same time the mothers want their daughters to understand them. This helps the daughters in many ways due to the fact that they want to feel meaning when their mothers speak instead of dysfunction. Chapter fourteen talks about the context of development that involves family, which is

The discipline of history requires students to have a comprehensive knowledge of literacy in order to understand the elements of texts, how and why they were created, and how to construct arguments in an academically correct format. There are two key literacy skills that students need master in order to be successful in a history discipline class: the ability to analyse and evaluate sources and the ability to correctly structure academic arguments. While these understandings are ultimately skill based learning, I believe that students firstly require direct instruction and scaffolding to be able to navigate through academically appropriate concepts and ways of working. Throughout the unit plan, there is allocated lesson time for clear and direct literacy instruction, with the inclusion of guided activities and practice. The unit plan was created for Year 10 History students studying World War II. It is important, that students at this stage of their education understand how to implement the literacy skills of the discipline so that their choice of whether or not to continue their education in the field of history is an informed one. Throughout the unit, the literacy learning that is used to aid students in developing well rounded literacies in a history discourse includes: analysing and evaluating sources as an extension from the students knowledge of the aspects that make up all texts according to the four resources model; an understanding and development of the skill of

Literacy is defined as being literate, that is, being able to read and write in a language. My personal experience with literacy began at an early age, at the age of 4 when I began to sit and read words and letters in the back of my mother’s car. Soon enough, she would bring me a magazine called “Majed” which, in the 90’s, was a popular magazine. With this, I began even more interested in reading and writing and reviewed every word in the magazine associated with each of the short pictured stories. It was the first memory I deeply recall of literacy and it was what laid the foundation for my personal love of reading and writing. The methodology used for this is an interview. There are three interviews which are analyzed and brought together in the form of a narrative. This narrative serves to better explain the emotions and thoughts that the interviewees had about the idea of literacy.

Literacy instruction should provide students with a variety of opportunities to read, write, listen, and speak. Getting to know my students is extremely important to me because I believe students’ interests need to be considered when developing literacy lessons. It also helps when choosing books to read aloud to the class and when choosing books for the class library.

Literacy skills in high schools are becoming scarce. Students have become more involved in technology and shortcuts rather than learning materials that he or she will need throughout the rest of their lives. Many high school students lack the reading and writing skills that they need in order to further their education and progress into the workforce. “The percent of Denver Public Schools high school students reading at grade level dropped between 2002 and 2005, from 40 percent to 37 percent” (Hubbard and Mitchell par. 4). The statistics shown for just three short years says a lot about our education system and how educators need to do more to help students. Years down the road, there is going to be a greater decline in students’ academic abilities. Response to Intervention (RTI) is an idea that has been floating around for a few years but it has never been in action. The major purposes of RTI are to prevent failure and to diagnose less apparent and/or unnoticed learning disabilities (King, Lemons, and Hill 7). College is becoming a necessity in America; therefore, adequate literacy skills are essential in order to achieve a college education. School administrators should engage in the research and implementation in RTI literacy frameworks and/or literacy programs because secondary students are not getting the literacy skills they need in order to succeed in higher levels of education or in the workforce.

As a special education teacher, I learn to recognize that the way to support the range of diversity in my classroom is to know how to decide which aspects of literacy development to teach. Students must be able to recognize the sounds, or phonology, of language in order to understand how speech is related to print. Children with special needs require assistance in learning to develop phonological awareness and this understanding is essential to learning to read an alphabetic language. Some of the strategies that really work for me are; (1) to model and practice a simple task, such as rhyming, and (2) then complex tasks, such as segmenting and blending. I also use additional strategies to help students manipulate sounds, such as using blocks