This document introduces traditional or conventional literacies, which include reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Literacy is traditionally defined as the ability to read and write. Miller further breaks down conventional literacy into three subcategories: basic literacy involving decoding words, comprehension literacy as understanding what is read, and functional literacy as relating personal experiences to what is heard and expressing ideas through language. The document notes that reading literacy involves both the text itself and comprehending the intended meaning or message. It concludes by thanking the audience.

1. TRADITIONAL OR
CONVENTIONAL
LITERACIES
INTRODUCTION TO 21ST CENTURY LITERACIES

2. T I O N A
T R A D I L
The traditional literacy skillset contains the
traditional literacies of reading, writing ,
speaking, and listening.

3. WHAT IS LITERACIES?
THE WORD “LITERACY”
STEMS FROM THE WORD
“LITERATE” WHICH
APPEARED IN THE 15TH
CENTURY.
Latin word “literatus”
means “(a person)
marked with letters” –
that is, “distinguished or
identified with letters”
LITERACY IS DEFINED BY
DICTIONARIES AS THE
STATE OF BEING ABLE TO
READ AND WRITE.

4. MILLER (1973)
DIVIDES THIS CONVENTIONAL CONCEPT OF LITERACY INTO
THREE SUB-CATEGORIES.
SUB-
CATEGORIES
FUNCTIONAL OR
PRACTICAL LITERACY
COMPREHENSIONAL
LITERACY
BASIC LITERACY

5. BASIC LITERACY

6. COMPREHENSION LITERACY
IT IS THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND
THE MEANING OF WHAT IS BEING READ

7. FUNCTIONAL OR PRACTICAL
LITERACY
RELATE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
THAT ARE RELEVANT TO WHAT IS
HEARD WITH ASSISTANCE AS NEEDED
GAIN INCREASING CONTROL
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE BY
COMBINING WORDS TO CONVEY IDEAS

8. TWO IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF
READING/LITERACY:
(based on conventional definition)
TEXT TO BE READ
MEANING OR MESSAGE BEING
COMMUNICATED

9. REFERENCE
BUILDING AND ENHANCING
NEW LITERACIES
ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
By: Elen Joy Alata, Eigen John
T. Ignacia

10. THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING!
JORIELYN E. APOSTOL
REPORTER
BEED 1-A
Fe Patria F. Formalejo
PED - INSTRUCTOR