Paying attention more to the Resnick article, I found a few things rather perplexing about\u00a0how literacy used to be, especially in France during Revolutionary War times. I found the idea that literacy was often judged as whether not you could recite a few certain pieces of reading a little bit strange\u00a0(especially in the late 1600s in France). They did not ask for any writing or either comprehension. Then, later in the work it claims that in the 1920s, “the ability to understand an unfamiliar text, rather than simply declaim one, became the accepted goal and new standard of literacy” (Resnick 382).<\/p>\n
So, my question is why do you think it took over 300 years for this idea to become the expected value of literacy? Do you think there was an advantage by just memorizing familiar texts in the late 1600s? Or was it just that teachers and parents back then were unable to truly help children understand what they were actually reading?<\/p>\n
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