Category:Literacy

From David Spencer's Education Paragon: Helping students develop citizenship, literacy, responsibility and vision

David Spencer's Education Paragon is a free educational resource portal helping David Spencer's Ontario Canada based secondary school students, parents of his students and David's teaching colleagues with understanding and applying assessment, communication, curriculum design, curriculum planning, curriculum delivery, evaluation and literacy skills accurately and effectively. Since the site launch on September 27, 2006, there have been 375,427 page views. Current site statistics may be viewed and visitor statistics from here.

A few of the 1,134 pages of David Spencer's Education Paragon are written by David's students. The rest are written, edited, published and hosted by educator David Spencer. Please send your accolades, comments, corrections, feedback, ideas and resource suggestions to David and his team of volunteers.

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Literacy

Literacy is the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak at a level adequate for communication and understanding in a society. Today, illiteracy is seen as a social issue that can be reduced through education.

" Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society." (UNESCO, 2004:13)