Literacy And Critical Literacy

Literacy: The ability to read and write.
Being literate is necessary for learning. As students’ progress through school and engage with subject areas more deeply concepts become more challenging. Students use a greater variety of learning resource with more and more complex language and structure and increasingly sophisticated graphical and numerical representations. Students learn writing and reading strategies, using evidence and reasoning pertinent to each subject area, to comprehend and represent knowledge using traditional and emerging media.