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Sneak Peak

Sneak Peak

What stories did your parents tell you about their own efforts to learn to read and write? My parents (like all arab parents) told me they were 1st in class. They always told me to sit in the first row at school to listen more (basically sucking up to the teacher all the time) and …

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Literacy Narrative: The Sneak Preview

Literacy Narrative: The Sneak Preview

Q: Try to think of your earliest memories of writing and reading.  What do you remember of reading and writing before you began school?  Who helped you with it and what was that like? A: “Before I began school I remember reading almost every night at least two books with my parents. They were simple …

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Literacy from a Grandmother’s Perspective

Literacy from a Grandmother’s Perspective

Hey everyone, I decided to interview my grandma for the literary narrative project. Here is my favorite question/answer I got out of it… Q: Try to think of your earliest memories of reading and writing. What do you remember of reading and writing before you began school? Who helped you with it and what was …

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Blog #2 – Different types of literacy

Blog #2 – Different types of literacy

The image I chose is of six different people sitting at Metro Station, each one of them is holding something different that they’re reading from. Two are holding books, one is reading a newspaper, one is on his cellphone, one is listening through earphones, and one girl looks like she’s holding a magazine (picture gets …

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Literacy and Image, An Analysis on Hamilton’s “Expanding the New Literacy Studies”

Literacy and Image, An Analysis on Hamilton’s “Expanding the New Literacy Studies”

There is a great deal of significance in analyzing more than just imagry, but the great deal of concepts we can derive from literature as well. Appreciating the meaning and value of text can be comparable to being as great as interpretting our world as we see it (all be it that the text is …

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