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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read, write, speak, and listen in meaningful and socially-acceptable ways. One who is able to do that is literate and those who can't are illiterate. Similarly, one can be computer literate or illiterate, depending upon the ability to use a computer. Questions about literacy are asked in this category.
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Which is better to memorize loud reading or silent reading?
Generally, the more of your senses you can use while learning something, the more likely you are to retain it. So reading it out loud invokes both your vision and hearing versus silent reading which only uses vision.
It adds nothing significant to the meaning of the conversation nor does it enhance the reputation of the person who used the word. The words are disrespectful and profane. Profanity also suggests disrespect to any religious figure and if you wish to include blasphemy, that is an offensive attack on religious figures, is sinful and in violation of the 10 Commandments.
What is a sentence for inextricably?
"so entangled as to make escape impossible" So a sentence for inextricable would be,"I couldn't find my way through the inextricable maze."
Tituba was a slave that confessed to seeing the devil who appeared to her sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog
What are the lexile books that have a lexile of 1700?
I don't know one with a 1700 lexile (wow) but one with 1200 lexile is Understanding The Lord of The Flies and Understanding Romeo and Juliet is 1380, (yeah, kind of funny) and a book that is 1550 is Pride and Prejudice: School Desegregation. So pretty much, just read a book about understanding a classic.
How can a child be able to read tricky sight words and not be able to read or blend phonetically?
Sight words are memorized, so there is no need to be able to sound them out. In order to read phonetically, knowledge of phonetics is needed.
What is the most literate country?
Quote from the Related Link: "Andorra, Australia, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg all have 100% literacy rates."
What percentage of mothers with less than a high school education read daily to their children?
About 31% of mothers with less than a high school education read daily to their children.
http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=reading-to-young-children
What does the term framing mean in teaching?
It means providing context for a lesson. You teach addition and subtraction framed as "How many cookies do you have left?".
What are ten reasons reading is not good?
There are no reasons not to read. Reading is a valuable and necessary tool to learn, and a source of enjoyment for many, many people.
Reading would help you learn what a truly dumb question this is.
When should a child start to read?
I learned the sounds (and names) of the letters when I started school at age 5. There were nearly 50 kids in the class. The main method used to teach reading was 'chalk-and-talk' with phonic methods as far as possible. There was none of that nonsense about 'reading readiness' or child-centred education. What's more there were practically no literacy problems, either!
Phonics is a kind of instruction that focuses on the different sounds letters make. There are more than 44 different sounds in the English language and more than 1200 ways to spell them. It is taught by teaching students all these different sounds and spellings and then showing them how to blend them together to guess the pronunciation of words they do not know.
Right now, phonics instruction is really popular with Programs like Hooked on Phonics and Fast Forward. However phonics instruction is still a controversial topic. Many students find it frustrating and ineffective. In my opinion, struggling readers and really anyone who is learning to read, needs to learn phonemic awareness first.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear all the different sounds in a word. If a reader can not hear the different sounds they will be unable to tell a long vowel from a short one or consonant blends or digraphs apart. Some programs teach phonemic awareness before phonics which allows students to build these basic auditory processing skills before trying to make sense of the 44 different sounds and the letters that go with them. My favorite all-encompassing reading program is Sound Reading Solutions (www.SoundReading.com). It comes in three levels that target different ages and abilities and is the best program I have found that teaches all the foundational skills essential to reading. They have a great page on their website that explains this in even more detail - http://soundreading.com/On-Phonics.html
What is the adjective for someone with good logic skills?
That would be logical. In a sentence it would sound like this: "His response was very logical."
What does He who is less than just is less than man mean?
This is a philosophy question. Men who are unjust are unworthy to be called men.
What is the difference between a primary source and secondary source?
Primary sources were either created during the time period being studied or were created at a later date by a participant in the events being studied (as in the case of memoirs). They reflect the individual viewpoint of a participant or observer. Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period.
A secondary source is a work that interprets or analyzes an historical event or phenomenon. It is generally at least one step removed from the event and is often based on primary sources. Examples include scholarly or popular books and articles, reference books and textbooks.
