APPL941 : Literacies Assignment - Macquarie University

Internal Code : MAS4801

Literacies Assignment :

The most fundamental and important issues in the field of reading education are those of how children learn to read and write and how best to help them. (Marilyn Jager Adams)

• Phonemic awareness

• Phonics

• Fluency

• Vocabulary

• Comprehension Literacy as decontextualized neutral skills

• Narrow understanding of literacy as technical skill

• Marginalizes literature-based, “meaning- making” approaches