From Early Literacy to Information Literacy

Abstract

“Language is at the heart of the process of becoming literate. Through participation in these interactions, individual students construct a sense of self as readers, writers, and thinkers within the culture of each particular classroom. These constructions are salient to students' development of motivation for literacy learning.” (Johnston, 1992). Early literacy is the stepping stone to 21st century information literacy. Here in Li Sing Primary School, I strive to enable my pupils to learn via a framework of early literacy that
envelopes book handling skills, questioning, read aloud and prediction for P. 1-2 pupils. The set reading skills are extracts taken from the English Curriculum Guide published by the Education and Manpower and Bureau. ( See Appendix 1) Alongside with reading, listening, speaking is also used during everyday teaching and daily activities. Process writing and free writing has also been used to help pupils to master writing as a creative process whereby they use mind map, paragraphing and connectives to make writing a meaningful learning task.