Literacy Competency

After this semester of English 102, at Bristol Community College I feel that I have gained the skill to articulate what I want to convey to the reader in many ways. I don’t just look at grammatical error, but instead I look for ways to make my sentences more effective and concise. Nevertheless, I hope that this strategy will continue to help me improve my writing even further on in the future.

I observed Dr. Jenny Crisp’s English 98 class on January 19, 2016. The class began at 12:15 PM and lasted until 1:20 PM. The room that the class met in was on the third floor of the Liberal Arts building, and the room had individual computers for each of the students to work on. The class was divided into two sections on this day because Dr. Crisp had scheduled an introductory visit to the writing lab, which began at 12:45. Prior to the visit to the writing lab, Dr. Crisp guided the class in a discussion on the topic of revision in regards to the first paper that the class had submitted. The stages of revision were discussed and the students were shown where additional help could be found within the book. Dr. Crisp told the students that the reason that their grades on the essays were significantly lower was because the essays were lacking in detail and had Type One errors. She stated that revision is important and that could help bring up the grades on the essays.

Growing up we’re told repeatedly that, “grammar is important, and you will need it in college.” As I sit in these lectures, however, I see that claim hasn’t fazed anybody. I sit in an English class expecting to read these great, well put together papers, and I get the same writing level I saw my senior year in high school. I should expect this, I mean, no kid is going to magically learn the rules of writing over the summer. I didn’t. It took nine grueling months of an English class that, quite frankly, was hell on earth to learn most of them. The class was the toughest class I have ever sat through, and yet, I’m blessed. I’m in my second semester as a college student, and Sandra Stebbin’s English class has saved me more times than I care to count. It’s time for the United States education system to start taking grammar seriously. This is a huge concern, because our future leaders can’t afford to have writing skills equivalent to a 7th grade middle school kid.

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

Assessment is a key component of training used to educate direction. The initial phase in executing great perusing guideline is to focus the student benchmark execution. Students enter the classroom with different foundations and aptitudes in proficiency. A few students may enter the classroom with exceptional needs that oblige audit of fundamental aptitudes in perusing, while other students may have comprehended the substance an educator plans to cover. Because of these different understudy levels, it is important to outline proficiency direction to meet the individual needs of every student. Individual needs can be dictated by beginning and continuous perusing evaluations. These evaluations furnish educators

Many individuals in the United States are struggling with reading, writing, and comprehension. This is not only necessary for daily life in today’s world, but imperative on the healthcare front. “Health literacy continues to be a major problem despite public and private efforts at all levels to address the issue through testing of literacy skills and development of literacy training programs” (Bastable, 2014, p. 256). “By focusing on health literacy issues and working together, nurses can improve the accessibility, quality, and safety of healthcare provided, reduce costs, and improve the health and quality for millions of people in the United States” (Bastable, 2014, p. 258).

My first day of 8th grade year, Mrs. Tucker showed me that her English class would serve as a rewarding and knowledgeable course. Indeed, it did. By the third week of school I was writing five hundred word essays, studying and reading diverse novels, and enhancing my vocabulary and writing skills. I owe my growth and refinement in English to Mrs. Tucker. Whenever I became discouraged or did not desire to

Researchers, such as Corder (1967) define the word ‘error’ when people do not follow grammatical rules or structures. At the basis of the accuracy-fluency controversy is the question of error. Once thought to be deviant behavior, error is now seen as a neutral phenomenon in learning of all kinds; learning to ice skate, to type, to analyze literature, to speak a first or second language. Of course, errors in written language can be due to intonation, memory lapse, or indifference and in an in-class writing situation, NES (Native English Speaker) as well as EFL (English as a First Language) students will make hasty performances errors. Generally, EFL errors are neither random, nor sporadic or deviant, instead they are systematic, regular and

From Day One of Ms. Steiner’s Honors English class, the importance of sentence structure, and grammar, and proofreading, and analyzing texts was drilled into my brain like a screw into a board. I could see why upperclassmen referred to it as “the most challenging sophomore English course”. The first essay was due the next week, and after all it was the first week, so she’d be lenient, right? Wrong. Did her nose bleed over my paper? Run-ons, vague pronoun, weak thesis, no transition. This could not have been mine, but the 12 pt

Will I Gens be able to succeed in the real world. I don’t know. I know that I can succeed though because my dad sophisticated my knowledge on how to work properly and efficiently. In my life, I had no Xbox or ps4 to influence the way I think. My customary day is going out and feeding cows in the winter cutting wood. Most iGens could not live in my conventional world.

I am extremely interested in teaching Literacy for the secondary classroom. A The content areas in what is currently taught and led by CCSSO and NGA are Literacy are reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language with some mathematics.

Mastering your literacy may be way more important than you think. Though our generation may be creative with technology, are, we ready to be successful in our careers? Sadly, right now we are not able to, partly because we are not able to master our literacy skills. So what we fail to do in school as kids may affect our success in life. In this essay I will tell you why I think it is important to master my literacy skills, what I think that will do for my future, and why literature is important to me.

All around the world people have to take an English course. The question many students ponder is whether you actually gain any knowledge from this course. Throughout the course of the past semester I have been much more enlightened on many aspects of life through attending the class of English II. The class has been so useful for me because it allowed me to learn many topics such as, the care and life of bees, the steps to creating a fictional story, and how to successfully win a court case.

Today, formal grammar is essential in our academic careers, requiring us to write concise and professional assignments in order to exercise creativity and leave impressions on our peers. Although, the effectiveness of the explicit instruction of formal grammar is still under speculation; even individuals from academic and research backgrounds are skeptical about whether explicit formal grammar instruction is effective at all. Although, it sounds nonsensical to even consider abolishing this instructional method, for why should learning grammar be based on one’s own knowledge of it? Why should the student’s initial experience with grammar be deemed as more important than proper instruction? The explicit instruction of formal grammar in society is necessary, for the consequences of removing this practice can prevent core grammar from being taught in the first place. Also, even if other methods would prove more effective, applying this would be too much of a risk, and ultimately keep students from discovering personal interests in English, and make it more difficult for foreign students to learn English as a second language.

Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills, but often develops along with them, especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help build vocabulary that helps listening comprehension at the later stages, particularly.