Literacy

Literacy’s

At a very early age everyone learns different literacy’s whether it be learning the alphabet or learning our times tables or tying our shoe lace. Mainly all our early literacy’s come from our parents in socialisation. After these kinds of literacy’s it is very common that everyone branches off into their own interests depending on the people and environment they are around.

Personally a literacy I learn from a young age was sport. At the age of 6 I began to play tennis because my family was very sporty and then at the age of 10 I began to play hockey. I played both sports at high school and I now play Hockey at University. Both of these various types of information whether it be skills, tactics or rules. I find that sport helps me relax and forget about everything else.

Another literacy I have learnt is technology. The use of laptops and smart phones are very common now so as a society we have to also become literate in these areas. Being computer literate for me was encouraged at high school then at home and in society it was used more and more which meant I had places to practice. I believe that as society develops so do we, so I also therefore believe that all literacy’s we develop are always influence from an external source.

Another literacy I developed was how to cook. From a young age I used to cook dinner and desserts with either my Mum or my Nan. They encouraged me to learn and also gave me the experience of cooking because it is a very good skill to have as we grow up and have to become independent.

Overall I think it is important to recognise that none of these literacy’s are possible without our one main literacy that we learn when we are younger which is reading. Almost everyone learns how to read just in very different ways. For me, the main way I learnt was reading with my parents before attending school.