Snippets of Literacy

Equal access to literacy education, access to quality resources and quality instruction are the beginning steps towards equity in literacy education.  Let's babble about it!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Have you ever considered how the young and elderly are coping in this age of digitisation when a pandemic is raging the world? What lessons can we learn? What things should we be doing to ensure digital literacy for all? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

An illiterate child or youth might not have the literacy skills to participate in their own defense. What systems are in place to protect them from self-incrimination and the threat of justice denied? This episode will provide you with insights into literacy and justice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Keeping the youth out of prison could be as simple as providing them with their first book, telling them their first story, encouraging them to go to and stay in school. We can sit on the sidelines and complain or we can start today to disrupt the school to prison pathway. What are you going to do? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

There is a positive correlation between being educated and the eradication of illiteracy. Find out more in this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Have you ever considered what happens to a child's learning when they are constantly suspended or expelled from school? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Primary teacher-come-homeschool-parent, Cheree, shares some insights into how she has created an engaging, fun, and rich learning space for her twin boys at home since taking the decision to remove them from mainstream school. Her insights will inspire you and may even empower you to take that risky decision and try something new if you are also home-schooling your children. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

The way we punctuate can significantly affect the message of a text, so watch your commas, colons, and other punctuation marks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

If you want students to speak, write, read and understand like an expert, you have to teach them the literacy of their subject area. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Whether you read or write poems, don't neglect the capacity to improve one's literacy while bringing enjoyment and engagement. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Have you ever thought about the role power plays in literacy development? This episode explores critical literacy and discusses how to decentralise the focus on the dominant culture so that meaning is constructed by every participant in literacy development process and not just the elite or privileged ones.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Phonemic awareness, an enlarged vocabulary and the development of listening and social skills are just some of the reasons to include nursery rhymes in your child's pre-literacy learning. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Literacy is more than cognitive ability; it is also social practice. When teachers understand this, they will be able to connect more with their students and become more effective teachers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

What if you found out your precious child - or even all your children - had a serious problem with reading? What if you then found out this problem had a name, dyslexia? Listen to Dr Eunice Santiago-Fuchs, a nurse and dyslexia expert, as she shares her experience and evidence-based knowledge about how and why she came to take charge of her children's learning.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

There are so many ways you can turn your home into a place where learning takes place without it becoming like a classroom. Take advantage of simple and affordable real-life ways to build your child's literacy ability and confidence before they even start school. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Adults have an important role to play in building a child's vocabulary. Help them reach their literacy developmental milestones so they can communicate better. Don't stunt their growth. Listen up to learn why and how.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Engage your children and youth in reading by introducing them to picture books now! Not only will they find joy in it, but they will also learn to read better and it will help them in later life with things like map and graph reading. Moreover, in this day and age of everything visual, let's ensure they are visually literate so they don't get conned by those who are more media-savvy. Join primary teacher and my great friend, Cherie Forbes, as we chat about her experiences with using picture books at home and at school.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Have you ever wondered what it is like to work in literacy education? Join Veronica as she talks about her new role as Head Teacher of Literacy and Learning, the challenges she faces and what she hopes to achieve.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Find out the difference between learning to read and reading to learn, and the connection with literacy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

The title of this episode is a bow to the lovely legend, Miss Tina Turner, but the content has nothing to do with music. In fact, it is about the importance of play in the emergent literacy years and how play sets children up for a lifetime of literacy accomplishments in reading, writing and imagining.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Someone wise once said that it is difficult to hate someone you truly know.  Storytelling gives us a glance into each other's worlds that will ultimately show us that we are all the same.  Being more literate helps us to interact with each other as equals, something the world is in need of now.  Let's eradicate racism through literacy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

There is a connection between literacy and social issues like domestic violence and the sooner we see the connection and take steps to address them, the better. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Both our genetics and our surroundings affect literacy acquisition, but one is said to be more influential than the other. Listen to find out which.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Speaking is a foundational skill that needs to be encouraged from an early age.  If your child is having speaking difficulties, you must intervene so that they don't develop into literacy struggles later.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

As their first and best placed adults, parents are a child's best literacy teacher. Reading aloud to children is one way to start their literacy journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

The Old Deluded Satan Act and other ways education and literacy for all became a thing for the masses. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Imagine not being able to read a map or a menu. Join me as we explore the everyday struggles of an illiterate person. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

Education is a human right everyone would agree with. Literacy is the foundation of basic education and so is a basic human right. Or it should be. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

In our heightened state of health awareness, what can this pandemic teach us about the importance of literacy? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dawn-grant-skiba/message

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