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Welcome to ODCVI's new Literacy Website!!! This site has something for Students, Parents, Teachers and the Community as well. |
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Literacy is defined in The Report of the Expert Panel on Students at Risk in Ontario as: the skills and knowledge in reading, writing, speaking, listening, representing, and viewing that empower learners to make meaningful connections between what they know and what they need to know. Literacy becomes the ability to understand, think, apply, and communicate effectively to achieve personal and career goals. |
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Literacy
is about more than reading and writing – it is about how we communicate
in society. It is about social practices and relationships, about
knowledge, language and culture. Literacy…finds its place in our lives
alongside other ways of communicating. Indeed, literacy itself takes many
forms: on paper, on the computer screen, on TV, on posters and signs.
Those who use literacy take it for granted – but those who cannot use it
are excluded from much communication in today's world. Indeed, it is the
excluded who can best appreciate the notion of "literacy as
freedom." |
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This guide was prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Education as part of an initiative to support student success in literacy. In particular, it focuses on boys’ literacy. Based on an international review of effective practices, the guide is intended to stimulate discussion of this important issue among educators in Ontario and to provide practical and effective strategies that teachers across the province can put to use in the classroom, both immediately and over the longer term. |
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LAST UPDATED JUNE 2008
