Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Main Campus
Santa Cruz, Laguna

Esther I. Lorida March 17, 2021

BEED - 3A Maam, Evelyn Luna Balaoro
Assignment:
1. What do you mean by literacy?
- For me literacy is the ability to read either he/she can understand it or not
and also literacy is the ability to write in atleast one method of writing.
Literacy includes the ability to listen, to speak and to do a critical thinking.

2. Traditional Literacy
- The traditional is defined as the quality of being literate; knowledge of
letters;condition in respect to education especially ability to read and write.
- Traditional literacy skillset contains the traditional literacies of reading
writing, speaking, and listening.
- It is the making of meaning and its clear communication to others. Truly
literate people not only read and write, but regularly do so in order to sort
out their ideas and put them in words, to fit them together and test
hypotheses- ie. to make sense and meaning out of world.
- It includes a cultural knowledge which enables a speaker, writer or reader
to recognize and use language appropriate to different social situations.

3. Conventional Literacy
- Conventional Literacy is a type of literacy that deals with reading and
writing skills of letters in a particular language. It involves issues such as
knowing the alphabet, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics and pragmatics that govern the reading and writing skills in a
conventional manner. McGee and Richgels (1996:30) describe the use of
conventional literacy in terms of the behavior manifested by readers,
“Conventional readers and writers read and write in ways that most people
in our literate society recognize as ‘really’ reading and writing. For
example, they use a variety of reading strategies, know hundreds of sight
words, read texts written in a variety of structures, are aware of audience,
monitor their own performances as writers and readers, and spell
conventionally.

4. Methods in traditional Literacy

A. The alphabetic method. Educators have used this method of teaching
literacy since ancient times. This method involves following the alphabet. In
 other words, children study each letter of the alphabet in order, learning its
name and pronunciation. Simultaneously, they learn to write each one.

B. The syllabic method. This procedure for teaching literacy starts with the
learning of vowels – a, e, i, o, u and y. Then, children move on to learn
consonants, starting with the ones that are easiest to pronounce.

C. The phonetic method. This method of teaching literacy uses mainly phonetic
material. Here, educators first teach the vowels by their sounds, using figures
and images with objects that start with each of these letters. Parallel to
reading, they teach the writing of each vowel. Then, teachers explain each
consonant with its sound, using images of objects or animals that start with
each one. Children learn to combine each consonant with the five vowels,
forming simple syllables like pa, pe, pi, po, pu. Then, teachers use the
syllables that the children are now familiar with in order to form simple words
and phrases that include only those words.

D. The global method. The method involves approaching literacy in the same
way that children learn to speak. From the start, educators present different
units with an integral meaning. Through visual memory, children learn to
recognize phrases and, within those phrases, words. They come to make
associations and identify elements that are the same in different words and, in
this way, learn to recognize letters. In this approach, the written word is a
simple graphic representation of an image that children have in their minds.

5. Comparison of traditional and a conventional literacy

- For me Traditional and Conventional literacy is almost the same because
they are both refers to such skills as decoding, oral reading fluency,
reading comprehension, writing, and spelling. The use of these skills is
evident within all literacy practices, and they are readily recognizable as
being necessary or useful components of literacy.