Social literacy concerns itself with the development of social skills, knowledge and positive human values that enable human beings to act positively and responsively.

1. Social Literacy
Lesson 3

2. Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able
to:
Develop understanding of the working definition of
social literacy.
Explain the roles of parents and teachers in
teaching social skills to children.
Discuss and examine issues in social literacy

3. Social skills- concerned itself with the development
of social skills, knowledge, and positive human
values that enable human beings to act positively
and responsibly in range of complex social settings.
It is the knowledge of how to behave and treat other
people in a way that is morally upright, just and
equitable, with a view of promoting positive and
productive relations that are free from unfair
prejudices, hate, and discrimination.

4. Morally upright-thoughts, speech, actions, and
motivations that adhere to a standard of right and
wrong
Just- refers to speech, actions, and behaviors that
are in-line with a fixed standard of justice.
Justice- a system that promotes and rewards good and at
the same time punishes wrongdoing.
Equitable- are the speech, actions, behaviors, and
decisions that treat others fairly, regardless of
background or circumstances

6. Social Skills range from the ability to
initiate, maintain, and end a
conversation to reading social signals
to more complex skills such as solving
problems and resolving conflicts

7. Greeting
Children develop relationship with peers
by interacting with them. The first step in
social interaction is greeting someone.
Words like “Hi”, “Hello”, or “How are you?
Facial expression, tone of voice and
gestures.

8. Initiating Conversation
In order to initiate conversation, a child
must be able to initiate, maintain and close
conversation appropriately. It requires good
listening and attention skills, ability to
take turns and probe for missing
information
Impulsive children have trouble knowing
when to talk and when to listen.

9. Understanding the listener
It is important to understand the
audience one is talking to. A socially
adept child quickly and unconsciously
identifies and categorizes his listener,
measures what he/she has planned to
say against the anticipated response of
the listener, and then proceeds.

10. Empathizing
Empathy is more than perspective
taking; it means that one is able to feel
what the other person feels. It allows one
to really connect with other people, other
children often thinks of children who lack
empathy as mean, unkind or self-
centered.

11. Reading Social Cues
Cues are the hints and signals that
guide us to the next thing to say or do.
Social cues can be verbal or nonverbal.
Good detectives pay very close attention
to nonverbal cues.

12. Previewing or Planning
Conversation also require that one
previews or thinks about what effect the
words or actions may have on the
listener before she says or does them. If
the impact will be negative, one can
adjust what she might say or do.

13. Apologizing
Everyone makes social mistakes at
one time or another. A person with good
social skills is confident enough to make
a sincere apology for her error.
Apologizing is a sign of humble and
mature character where one commits
mistakes.

14. The Role of Parents and Teachers in Teaching
Social Skills to Children
Parents typically play the major role in teaching children
social skills
Parents can directly teach social skills by modeling, role-
playing, and providing opportunities for their child to
rehearse and practice new skills
Professionals typically intervene only when children are
having substantial social difficulty with peers.

15. The Role of Parents and Teachers in Teaching
Social Skills to Children
School is the place where children spend majority of their
time with peers.
While teachers do not have to teach a class social skills,
they can take advantage of every opportunity to help
children improve their social skills.
They should be alert to teasing and bullying and aware of
children that are rejected or ignored by peers

16. The Role of Parents and Teachers in Teaching
Social Skills to Children
The modern age calls for young professionals to
develop situational awareness and social intelligence
in both technological and traditional communications
to succeed in their academic and career endeavor.
Peers and schools play a formative role on the social
skills development of children

17. QUESTIONS TO PONDER
1.Are you more a listener or a talker? Which social
skill/s do you think you need to develop? In what
can you develop it/them?
2.How do teachers educate children of social
literacy nowadays? What specific content and
learning experiences are three in the curriculum
that develop social literacy?