LING 1P93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Computer Literacy, Health Literacy, Financial Literacy
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Wriing: health literacy , computer literacy , financial literacy . Ability to: idenify, understand/interpret, create, communicate, compute, use printed and writen materials. Why is it important: key determinant to health, highly literate are more employable, have higher incomes, and are less likely to be incarcerated that less literate people. Parent-child story ime important for literacy development: ritual/rouine established, stories are highly structured, parent does not need to read verbaim (rouinely change/simplify big words/describe what is going on in pictures) Parents who are seen reading and wriing send message to child that these are normal everyday aciviies. More likely to be imitated by children (more common in middle class than low income) Fills in missing words let out by reader. Reads aloud - recites familiar passages (memorize because it was read so oten) begins to scribble. 2-3 years coordinates text with pictures protests when adults changes words narraive development begins.