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I believe that literacy is the ability to understand, comprehend and manipulate language.

I think literacy is the ability to read and write a language.

Literacy is the ability to understand a language, and use that understanding to participate in society.

Literacy is the developed skill set used in human communication to read, write, comprehend and share information.

Literacy is the ability to use a language by means of comprehending its written and spoken word.

Literacy is the ability to read and to write and also to, in turn, comprehend what has been read and written.

Literacy is the capability to not only comprehend writing and reading, but as well as creatively forming it.

Literacy is the ability to comprehend writtten and spoken language.

Literacy consists of both the ability to comprehend written material as well as produce it.

While sitting in class I contemplated the difference between comprehending and understanding in relation to literacy and concluded that literacy is a much more complicated word than I have ever considered. In my response in class I stated that literacy … Continue reading →