What is Literacy?
Prior to reading, or should I say, watching The Arrival, by Shaun Tan. I had already composed a preconceived notion of what literacy means...
Literacy means....."Quality reading is the ability to read with fluidity while still grasping a firm understanding of the text." (Definition 1)
What does literacy mean to YOU?
After watching Youtube's illustration of Shaun Tan's, The Arrival: , my definition of literacy was challenged.
...Does literacy have to involve text?
...Can you watch literacy?
...What makes a person literate?
While watching this young-adult picture book, the main character needs to be literate to have a meaningful connection with the new society he was placed in. In this new society, he was a second-language learner. To his new peers, he may have seemed illiterate, but there were sure-tell signs that he is actually literate...such as:
He wrote letters to his family, made meaning with his surroundings, and physically communicated with others.
Thus, after watching this Youtube clip, I have a new-found definition of literacy!
Literacy means....."Creating interactions and offering opportunities to communicate by sending/receiving a message. Literacy is meaning-making; simply put, it is a way for people to get things done." (Definition 2)
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