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Literacy can have many different definitions. It can just be the ability to read and write or it is known as knowledge and competence in a specific area.
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Literacy can be the knowledge of numbers and script. Literacy goes as far back as 8000 BCE.
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"The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt. By 2700 BCE Egyptian writing had a set of some 22 hieroglyphs to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (or no vowel) to be supplied by the native speaker."
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The printing press was invented and that showed a big advantage in reading and writing.
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Roussea who believed a child's education be natural, abandoning contrived instruction to Pestalozzi and Froebel who believed a child's education be natural with combining informal instruction.
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Roussea, Pestalozzi and Froebel created major developments involving literacy in the classrooms.
Ex: Roussea said there should be little adult intervention
Ex. Pestalozzi said children develop through sensory manipulative experiences
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Literacy development has changed throughout the years of education. We know have literacy development involving technology that they didn't have back in the 1700s.
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The goal of this act is to provide all students with the necessary support to learn by well-prepared teachers. It was made to "level the playing field for disadvantaged students".
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Reading to learn rather than learning to read.
"Several states have enacted legislation that requires students not reading proficiently by the end of third grade to be retained." -
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