Poor Richard's Thoughts on Literacy

Letters...you won't be literate without them

Connecting with one's environment is one key to literacy.

21st century success depends on one's ability to use symbolic forms.

One must not only recognize the message embedded in symbolic information, one must correctly interpret it.

Those who can navigate each form of discourse will come out ahead.

You must first learn to encode your experience into a symbolic form before you can decode your symbolic forms into thought and experience.

Comprehension is greater when one is taught cognitive strategies.

Experience it first, then communicate through your own symbolized representations of your thought.

Reading and writing has a purpose...to learn.