Sentence examples for literacy where from inspiring English sources

Author of "Cultural Literacy" Where: An eldest son attended Charlottesville, Va., public schools.

It stops at the dawn of literacy, where it turns the rest of the story over to the detective work of archaeology; in still deeper time the quest becomes paleontology.

"In a world where technology and messages are becoming more complicated, the areas of basic literacy where we are strong is simply not enough," Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said yesterday.

DiSessa posed the question to us: can one claim that this is some new sort of "cut and paste literacy?" And, if so, how might it relate to textual literacy, where quoting is encouraged, but "copying and pasting" is the equivalent of plagiarism?

The emphasis on quality argumentation resides at the heart of scientific literacy where higher-order thinking skills are employed to solve problems and make decisions (Hurd, 1998).

While we do not claim expertise in the details, we recognized the Common Core as an attempt to institutionalize such a deeper version of literacy, where learning to read is not the end but the beginning of an unfolding process of interrogating the world and building critical thinking powers.

He also discusses the material and social reasons for the computer's potential and argues for "two-way literacies," where everyone is a creator as well as consumer of dynamic and interactive expressive forms.

This digital reading may be regarded as one of what is sometimes labeled "the new literacies," where it is claimed that the making of meaning of the semiotics in multimodal texts demands not only abilities that differ from those needed for reading traditional printed texts (Coiro et al. 2008) but also abilities that are unique for digital reading (Forzani 2013).

In a context of low literacy, and where there is a value for community self identification and where communities are responsive to recommendations of religious and traditional leaders, it is critical that any intervention in a community meets the needs of local stakeholders and wins their support.

It is a country with one of the world's highest literacy rates, where only 5percentt of public school students have access to computers.

They will make shadow puppets, a traditional Mongolian art form, and take them to the puppet stage at the museum's Helena Rubenstein Literacy Center, where they can act out a simple folklore-based script or make up their own.