By knowing each of your students individually reading will more fun and interesting for everyone in the classroom. In working with my group for this presentation I was surprised with how much of my prior knowledge I was able to link together. Students use their prior knowledge, to implement context throughout their reading. And if we will all have classrooms with a wide base of diversities, we must modify our teaching to reflect these differences. Literacy always meant to me a person having the ability to read.
Literacy has many definitions for many people.
I think that the person has to be able to function in their way of life. In reviewing the Excet competencies, I feel that most if not all of our readings incorporate several one or more competency. I was especially able to link many of the professional development competencies to the readings. Which in turn reviewed me for the. Excet in that it provided me with examples and not just questions with prompts.