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Literacy for me would mean the ability to engage independently with a text with the clear purpose of making meaning, analysis of author's craft and being able to articulate one's understanding of the text through oral discussions and written means.
22 July: Now it includes "Critical Literacy" where reading is a tool that helps one understand, participate, and engage with the society and community.

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Literacy is being able to read, write, comprehend, reflect and express.

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Literacy for me is the ability to read. It also means the ability to engage with the text with purpose and understanding. Also express, understanding through written responses or verbal express.
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Literacy also means being active readers. It is the skill to think critically about what one reads (text/video/picture). To analyse and interpret and question the author's thinking.

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Ability to give words to my imagination and the happenings of the world around me. And engage with the text in a meaningful way.

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Ability to give words to my imagination and the happenings of the world around me. And engage with the text in a meaningful way.

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Literacy is Listening speaking and reading writing

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Literacy is Listening speaking and reading writing

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literacy is ability to read , write , listen and also communicate and make sense of things around you
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It also means to engage with the text /pictures meaningfully,  and respond and reflect to understand, and make connection with self and the real world.

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Literacy  for me is the competency or proficiency in understanding the verbal and written nuances across languages

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I would spend 20 literacy minutes on listening and reading together, as I gives me feel of the text by listening and reading altogether.

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Literacy to me is a key to all the knowledge mankind has produced and preserved. 

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Literacy to me is a key to all the knowledge mankind has produced and preserved. 

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Nidha....Literacy to me is the ability to engage with a text meaningfully and proficiently

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Nidha....Literacy to me is the ability to engage with a text meaningfully and proficiently

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It also includes the ability to communicate one's thoughts effectively.

Review!
Literacy to me is a complex and a dynamic process. It is a persistent process which shapes the ideas and opinions of an individual. In addition to the interaction with a text, it also includes the decoding of the compelling ideas which are portrayed through images.

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I would devote 20 min to reading....It gives a lot of scope to visualise imagine,make connections....primarily make meaning of the world around me

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I would devote 20 min to reading....It gives a lot of scope to visualise imagine,make connections....primarily make meaning of the world around me

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ability to read and write is literacy.

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I would utilise my 20 minutes with letting children read books of their choice (if possible their levels) and confer with students 1-1 (building my understanding of each student as a reader through read-alouds and Q prompts)

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Nidha...I believe that if I have a limited time span, I would rather engage in book talks/conferences...

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Nidha...I believe that if I have a limited time span, I would rather engage in book talks/conferences...

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Literally literacy means the ability to read and write.  I understand it as development of all four components (LSRW)to be able to communicate and express in variety of ways.

Literacy - reflect and respond to a text/image, understand relationships in text, language and power it can hold, questioning approach to one's reading, not just being at the receiving end, respond, create, analyse, interpret, critique, evaluate ... and more

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Literacy to me is building proficiency of reading, comprehending, and expressing the language.

Literacy is beyond just a written text to me now. When I would look at a text or an image or any literary material, I would see how power relations based on caste, gender, socio-economic positions come into play. I would pay attention to setting and images and how the meaning differs the way illustrator has drawn and used the elements such as background, colours, size, etc.

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If I had only 20 minutes ( and I think it does not say per day/ week ) I would use it for conversations- Dialogue/ visualizations/ simulations of context, story, culture / vocabulary building while focussing on making cognitive and emotional connections.

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Literacy is the ability to engage with the learning - reading , writing or anything in wholeness understanding, experiencing and being with it.It  covers a wide range of emotions, understading, connecting, feeling and expressing .

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Literacy is the ability to engage with the learning - reading , writing or anything in wholeness understanding, experiencing and being with it.It  covers a wide range of emotions, understading, connecting, feeling and expressing .

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Literacy for me is to read and engage meaningfully with it and understanding and connecting with it. 

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Literacy for me is to read and engage meaningfully with it and understanding and connecting with it. 

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Ability to read and write.

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If I only had 20 literacy minutes I would spend the first 5 to 7 minutes discussing the literacy skill to be focussed on for that session, such as summarizing or character analysis and then let the students read independently for the rest of the time. Would ask them to pay attention to the skill while reading, stop-and-jot if required.

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Literacy is ability to read and write, think, building connections....it's having understanding about everything you read, hear, write.

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If I only have 20 minutes, I would spend it on reading and understanding the text and making connections with it.  

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If I only have 20 minutes, I would spend it on reading and understanding the text and making connections with it.  

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Maybe a read aloud followed by a DEAR time

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Maybe a read aloud followed by a DEAR time

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Pooja                                Literacy is the ability to read and think critically about varied kinds of texts and also to write for authentic purposes  while communicating with clarity.  

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Pooja                                Literacy is the ability to read and think critically about varied kinds of texts and also to write for authentic purposes  while communicating with clarity.  

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I would want to include:
forms of texts; social interaction; beyond school and is connected with life; discourses around power, gender, or social issues when I think about literacy now.

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8  minutes of Conversations/recording of thoughts
5 minutes of independent reading

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Literacy is the mainstay of all the other learning that takes place in the class. In its purest sense, it starts with listening and speaking, and then moves on to reading and writing. It is only fruitful when reflection, analysis, and critical appreciation forms a part of the process. It leads to development in vocabulary, perspectives, and love for the beauty in language. Questioning and connecting with self and society is another important aspect of literacy.

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Reshmi - Giving some excellent books to students and saying, "Here are some books for you to read and enjoy" 

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Reshmi - Giving some excellent books to students and saying, "Here are some books for you to read and enjoy" 

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In 20 minutes reading a good piece of literature

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In 20 minutes reading a good piece of literature

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Those 20 mins, I will do some read-alouds of interesting books to children and model reading and thinking aloud. I would also engage children in discussions about the books, stop and jots, analyzing characters, talk about what they like in books, the kinds of books they like, talking about how they connect these stories with their own lives, what does a story do to them, does it help them grow in some way...

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If I get 20 mins literacy time I would just do read- aloud and think aloud...

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If I get 20 mins literacy time I would just do read- aloud and think aloud...

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If I get 20 minutes literacy time, I would introduce my students to this vast beautiful world of books and the art of reading to connect with the content.

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If I get 20 minutes literacy time, I would introduce my students to this vast beautiful world of books and the art of reading to connect with the content.

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Literacy to me means the ability to write, read, speak and listen be able to communicate and express our ideas and thoughts clearly

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Literacy to me means the ability to write, read, speak and listen be able to communicate and express our ideas and thoughts clearly

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Literacy is the ability to read and write- to be able to communicate, comprehend add express.

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Literacy is the ability to read and write- to be able to communicate, comprehend add express.

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Reading that develops thinking

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Literacy means a thoughtful interaction with the text that I am exposed to -  not just about decoding and reading but understanding the cues and message that the written language signifies.
Literacy Light:
Literacy is  a vast, complex and differentiated practice that is highly individualized and is not only based on the reading and writing ability of an individual but the capacity to use these skills to promote higher order thinking skills  in terms  of interpretation, evaluation, analysis and conclusion.

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Pooja                                             I would spend those 20 mins on Reading Aloud to my children modelling think -alouds and engaging in conversations about their and my life as readers.   

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Pooja                                             I would spend those 20 mins on Reading Aloud to my children modelling think -alouds and engaging in conversations about their and my life as readers.   

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Listening to comprehend, eliciting answers

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Listening to comprehend, eliciting answers

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I would spend 20 minutes in reading and reflecting. 

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I would spend 20 minutes in reading and reflecting. 

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I would give the children creative license to express themselves in any mode they prefer.

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If i had 20  min to engage the learners, I would engage them into read aloud. It gives a learning platform for Visualization, Observation, Listening, Vocabulary enhancement and making connections. It triggers thinking and imagination

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If i had 20  min to engage the learners, I would engage them into read aloud. It gives a learning platform for Visualization, Observation, Listening, Vocabulary enhancement and making connections. It triggers thinking and imagination

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I would use that 20 mins for an exciting read aloud that hooks the children and excites them to share about the same.

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Ability to read and write, communicate , comprehend and connect
Literacy is a central thinking skill that helps in reading texts in deeper, more meaningful ways, by constructing understanding and not be used by the text to fulfill the intentions of the author. It involves the questioning and examination of ideas, and requires one to synthesise, analyse, interpret, evaluate and respond to the texts read or narrated.

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What are the factors that help make the movement from literacy to critical literacy?Critical literacy spells out the power of language by connecting the reader to the relationship between text. It connects thought, relevance, context, perspective provoking the reader to decode, decode and decode.

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Literacy is all about reading, writing, listening and communicating. It's understanding what is read and heard and making connections with self, world, text and other similar thoughts. It is also about learning the nuances of language.
Review of my understanding of literacy....connecting with what Prof. Allen Luke said, literacy is about learning how to work through text and engage as 'Critical social scientists - to go deeper into how to understand facts, truths and realities. It is about tuning eyes and ears to how text works- understanding how the author's background, use of language, visuals, intonations, etc. are positioned to have an impact on the readers. It is about having a critical & constructive skepticism towards presented information. It is about reading the world.

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 Literacy is (1)ability to engage with the written text, picture or an image (2)make deeper connections with it (3) assimilate and form a belief/impression about it which may have its own uniqueness.(4)stay with the belief until subsequent readings alter that belief to form a new one. On the whole, literacy helps in drawing a personal meaning from the experience.

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 Literacy is (1)ability to engage with the written text, picture or an image (2)make deeper connections with it (3) assimilate and form a belief/impression about it which may have its own uniqueness.(4)stay with the belief until subsequent readings alter that belief to form a new one. On the whole, literacy helps in drawing a personal meaning from the experience.

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Manju

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I would ask children to pick a short picture story, read it aloud and share what they made out of it.Then take them back to the story, read-pause-read giving them cues to important points they may have missed in the first reading.
Manju

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Listening speaking reading writing.
Review-Critical literacy-Reading to transform, Impact of images in compelling idea transfer
How Literacy leads to independent people, learning refining and developing,being a constant accompaniment to life.

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Literacy is the ability to listen to and comprehend content, to be able to read, infer and communicate. Requiring cognitive and linguistic skills, it has a critical presence throughout life.