What is Literacy?
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- Literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate meaning through reading and writing, listening and speaking, viewing and representing.
- Literacy skills need to continually expand and diversify because our rapidly changing social and economic environment requires competence in a range of new communication forms and media.
Why is Literacy important?
Literacy competence is central to achievement in all areas of learning as students progress through the early, middle and later years of schooling and into the workforce and personal life.
(NSW Department of Education Literacy K - 12 Policy
www.det.nsw.edu.au/policies/curriculum/schools/literacy/PD20050288.shtml)