Title: What is Literacy: A Model
1What is Literacy A Model
Word knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, background
knowledge, linguistic/textual knowledge, strategy
use, inference-making abilities, motivation
Text structure, vocabulary, print style and font,
discourse, genre, register
Text
Reader
Broader Context
Broader Context
comprehension
Context
Environment, purpose, discursive practices,
social relations, cultural norms (e.g., schools,
families peer groups academic content areas)
2Cueing Systems of Reading and Writing
- Graphophonic
- sound/symbol correspondences and phonemic
awareness - Syntactic
- parts of speech and sentence structure
- Semantic
- word meanings
- Pragmatic
- contexts, purposes, history, sociocultural
meanings and traditions - Visual
- iconic images, pictures, charts, graphs
- Discursive
- ways of knowing, doing, reading, and writing
3How Cueing Systems WorkExample
- He stood perfectly still, alert to the sounds of
the woods. - His attention focused on the sounds of his
approaching prey. - As the delicate footsteps approached, saliva
dripped from his sharp teeth. - Soon he was able to see the little girl and her
red-hooded jacket.
4- Physiological structures, by contrast, operate
more efficiently when they are well within the
extreme limits set by external mass transport. - Animals, for example, do not metabolize to the
point of collapse between meals, or between
breaths. In ecological communities, behavioral
mechanisms may mediate mass and energy flow for
example, in the division of nutrient flow among
species-specific tropic niches. - Such behavioral mediation may cushion the
physiochemical boundaries of community stability
and thus appear to be conceptually independent of
such boundaries. - However, behavior specialization simply allows
more matter to be entrained in the cycles of the
biological community, and thus allows the domain
(in ecological hyperspace) occupied by living
matter to fit more efficiently within whatever
physicochemical limitations (for example, of
temperature, isolation, or chemical potential)
may bound a habitable hypervolume.
- Blackburn, T. R. (1973). Information and the
ecology of scholars, Science, CIXXXI, 4105,
1141-1146.