Billy Threlkeld
9–6–17
Medium 1
What does it mean to be literate?
In the past being literate simply meant being able to read and write. Being able to read and…
What does it mean to be literate? In my opinion, to be literate in something, means being capable of…
Literacy in the modern world has essentially become a necessity to be successful. With our society…
If one looks to the dictionary to define the word literate, they will see definitions such as “able to read and write; having or showing knowledge of literature; having an education”, or perhaps, “a person who can read or write” (Dictionary, n.d.). While these definitions still ring true…
Bright Gilstrap stood up and brushed the fresh dirt off his hands. It’d been a long day on the farm and his old bones ached more than they used to. He’d “read” the signs all through the fall. August had been the foggiest he’d seen in all his 60 years and the woolly bear caterpillars that his…
What Does it Mean to be Literate?
I majored in English in college. I loved the great poets, the ancient works, and the beauty of language. Language, and more specifically the written word, wove intricate tales that evoked deep emotion and sentiments. When I became a Christian, I passionately clung to the King James Bible…
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What does it really mean to be literate in today’s society where hundreds of languages are spread across billions of people, where video games, television shows and movies have created…
Can you imagine walking to school…down the dirt road, with all of the other town kids…to the one room school building where all the…
What does it mean to be literate? Before I started this class, I would have told you literacy was the ability to read and write words, unknowing that there is more to the meaning of literacy. I was in the same mindset that James Paul Gee…
If you are reading this page right now, then you are more than likely literate. You are looking at symbols and lines on a computer and making meaning of what you see. What if I told you that you were literate in the sense that you can…
Is there a direct definition of what it means to be literate? According to James Paul Gee in Literacy and Education, literacy has different effects in different contexts and cultures (Gee, 2015, p.48). Context would include the setting of where the literacy is whether it is in a…
Literacy seems like something that should be as simple as the ability to read and write. I would have gone as far before as to say literacy is the ability to articulate words specifically in the realm of academics. I have quickly learned that there is more to it. There is…