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Previously I defined literacy as "the ability to read and understand what you are reading". While this is of course still very true, there is so much more to literacy than I realized. Literacy is about perspective, conversation, and communication. Its not always going to be about sitting down and practicing reading lines from a book. Literacy, more specifically critical literacy, is being able to spend your day-to-day life reading texts and listening to others and relating these words to your understanding of the world, your past experiences, and to you as you see yourself now.

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After reading more about critical literacy, there were many things I was not considering. I think I was confusing "reading" and "communication" with literacy. Literacy, especially critical literacy (which is now my FAVORITE kind of the many literacies) is so much more. Although it is not critical thinking, must think critically to become literate. Literacy means you can read, interpret, understand information that is explicitly written and make inferences about the many invisible factors influencing person taking in the information. There is so much I am still thinking about from this week's assignment.

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Literary is being competent in a subject, whether it reading or something else. It means that you understand something clearly and comprehend it.

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I think that literacy is not only just understanding the words that you have read, but also thinking, critiquing, questioning, and engaging with it. I really enjoyed the Key Aspects article because the explanation in that article really summarized critical literacy in a way that can be easily understood.

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Literacy applies to more than just understanding the written word. Literacy involves being able to interpret/infer messages that are not explicitly written.

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I really liked the Key Aspects article on critical literacy. I LOVE that they argue for critical literacy as an ongoing lens rather than a single solitary topic. (I also liked their idea of having students write down or take pictures of everyday writing such as graffiti so they could look at it through a critical literacy lens). I wrote the very simple definition of "literacy is the ability to comprehend something" and now I would add that critical literacy takes a look at HOW we understand something and draws our attention to what lens we may be using.

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Lauren Ferrara :The ability to understand and comprehend what you are reading and listening to....

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The ability to comprehend information in various forms

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Having understanding of the subject/ content that a person is studying or reading about. Inclusive to all types of information; not just reading.

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Literacy is the ability to comprehend what information you are presented. This includes going beyond just the print word, but any sort of information for example - financial literacy is one that is frequently used as a goal of comprehension.

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Literacy is the ability to understand and construct meaning from information that is presented, whether visual, textual, kinesthetic, etc.

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The ability to understand, comprehend and learn from what you read.

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The ability to understand something

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The ability to read and understand what you're reading

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at base, a person's ability to read and understand what is being written. varies on how deep one's understanding of the text is.

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The ability to understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions from text.

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The ability to read words and comprehend the words you read. This can also include listening and comprehending the words you heard.

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The ability to read and comprehend what you are reading.

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takes many forms. It is more than just words...it is being able to understand something, whether that is written expression, a photo, music...

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In its simplest form: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It is the intake and output of a language.

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I think it is, the ability to read and comprehend words and/or phrases

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Literacy includes engaging with content to understand and create meaning.

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the ability to comprehend something

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The ability to digest the written information that is given to you and be able to make a comprehensive thought on the subject.

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The ability to read but also understand/comprehend what you’re reading