NLC: Building and Enhancing New Literacies Across the Curriculum

It is the knowledge of how to behave and treat other people in a way that is morally upright, just and equitable, with a view of promoting positive and productive relations that are free from all unfair prejudices, hate, and discrimination.

• Functional literacy

• Emergent literacy

• Basic literacy and skills

• Social literacy

It is the ability to correspond visual shapes to spoken sounds in order to decode written materials and translate them into oral language.

• Functional literacy

• Emergent literacy

• Basic literacy and skills

• Social literacy

This is the stage during which children learn the crucial skills that lead to writing and reading.

• Functional literacy

• Emergent literacy

• Basic literacy and skills

• Social literacy

Emergent literacy is made up of several different parts. Which one is not part of emergent literacy?

• The child comprehends meaning from songs

• Print awareness

• An interest in telling and listening to stories

• The child comprehends meaning from pictures and stories

The skills and knowledge required to be multi-culturally literate are the following except:

• selflessness

• willingness to compromise

• idea that we can be friend with everyone

• knowledge that good and useful things can (and do) come from those different

This connection requires linking text from one book to a text in a different one.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-others

• Text-to-world

This refers to making a connection between one's life and the text one is reading.

• Text-to-self

• Text-to-text

• Text-to-others

• Text-to-world

This is a literacy strategy that requires students to make mental images in their minds. This technique is also known as 'imagery'.

• making connections

• visualizing

• inferring

• questioning

It is an essential literacy strategy that enables students to self-monitor their textual understanding.

• making connections

• visualizing

• inferring

• questioning

An easy approach to teaching synthesizing among students is to introduce the REST method. What does REST mean?

• Ready, Edit, Synthesize, Talk

• Read, Edit, Sympathize, Think

• Read, Edit, Synthesize, Think

• Ready, Edit, Synthesize, Think