Szwed’s five elements of literacy are text, context, function, participation, and motivation. motivation is the persistence to engage in reading and writing. and based on the motivation different degrees of skills can follow with it.
Szwed recommends studying by observing and understanding individuals and their literacy techniques and their process of reading and writing. His reasoning for these studying techniques is that the interaction with everyday events in their life, something as simple as reading and understanding a street sign is important literacy as well.
Szwed says “we must come to terms with the lives of people without patronizing them” I believe he means to not judge other people’s literacy. that someone’s appearance on their literacy skill in a classroom is not all they are. and there might be other factors in play in a person’s literacy level.
If I was a high school instructor in The Bronx, how I would teach literacy, I would ask my students what is their favorite. It does not matter what it is. and write about no word count just tell me about the book in your own words and why this book is your favorite. It could be nostalgic and if it is why. I would want them to be able to write about something they are interested in because I want them to be engaged and maybe it shows them something about themselves.
To Elizabeth Baker, the sociocultural perspective of literacy is the idea that literacy is directly correlated by culture and shifts along with it. The four characteristics of literacy are semiotic, public, transitory, and product-oriented.
I learned that literacy is the ability to read and write while Orality is about verbal communication. It’s learning literacy through speech.
Our Literacy is shaped by our community by how we are raised, the books we read as kids, our school system, and how much they cared to inform us of the right way of literacy. All of these factors play in also if you had to learn multiple languages it affects your literacy. Because if you are not reading enough books or if you’re not being taught in a way you understand or if you have to learn to speak one language at school and another at home it will also affect you.
Literacy standards are created by culture. That helps the privileged group succeed. The cultural bias is assessed by having it cater to the privileged group.
