Development Literacy vs Content Area Literacy

[iernest]

Developmental literacy is the process by which someone develops the skill of fluent reading and writing to help them comprehend, construct and reconstruct the reading world in which they are faced with everyday.

Content area literacy is the ability to read, understand and critically analyze multiple forms of print, including textbooks, magazines, novels, internet material etc.

[kmesmin]

Developmental Literacy deals with the progression of skills that are needed in the rearing of an individuals' reading and writing skills, its primary focus is on the recognition of letters and their sounds, writing creatively and also reading to comprehend. Whereas Content Area Literacy is a cognitive and social practice involving the skills and desire to critique, comprehend and write multiple forms of texts. This is where students read to acquire new knowledge.

[qvidal]

Developmental Literacy is the process of acquiring skills to read fluently. This involves decoding, gaining phonetic skills,blending letter sounds etc.

Content area Literacy is a cognitive and social practice involving the ability to read, understand, critique and write about varied forms of print material.

[cfrancis]

Developmental literacy, predominantly based on Chall's research (1967, 1983), is the hierarchical progression through stages of reading.

Content area literacy on the other hand, focuses on skills needed to understand content within a specific subject and special emphasis is put on "learning to read" and "reading to learn."

[kmitchell]

literacy is the ability to to read and write. According to Chall's 6 stages of reading development reading begins in the pre-reading and initial reading stage by the time an individual gets to stage stage three they should be able to read to learn, the primary purpose of this is to help students develop an awareness of of the different expository text structures. Content area literacy helps broaden the students vocabulary, writing and decoding skills.

[mmathurin]

Develpmental literacy refers the process og getting studnets acquire the necessary skills in order to be bale to read

Content litearcy refers to a cognitive and social practice where students are actively engaged in reading to learn

[Admin]

I noticed that some of you made effective use of the guiding questions in re-framing your definitions. With the exceptions of William's definition all posts that follow the guiding questions deserve full marks. Excellent.

Williams, while your definitions have captured the main idea, they lack depth. You need to read those posted by Eugene, Dubois, Gidharry, Justin, Regis, Louisy etc. These definitions are comprehensive and well articulated.

All the best.

[ljnpaul]

Developmental literacy is the process which an individual goes through in becoming competent in a language. this therefore involves the individual learning how to shape sounds, pronounce words and generally learn to read fluently.

Content area literacy involves a student being well versed in the vocabulary and content related to a specific subject area such as mathematics or business. it requires the student to know and use the jargon associate with the specific area appropriately.

[kstange]

Developmental literacy refers to the various processes students go through as they learn to read and write. These skills are acquired at specific stages in an individual's development. According to Chall, they are acquired between the ages 0 to 14. These skills include word identification and recognition, fluency and articulation in reading and writing pieces that are coherent.

Content area literacy refers to the ability to read comprehend and respond to multiple forms of text. Chall describes this as the stages where the child reads to learn and it ranges from age 14 onwards. At this stage the student should have acquired the necessary skills to read to learn.

[kamarlaambrose]

Developmental Literacy refers to the steps or stages that one goes through over time to become a skillful and fluent reader, creative and effective communicator of ideas and opinions. It is the stages that one goes through to help them decode, analyze, pronouncing and recognize words, letters and sounds. According to Chall's theory Developmental literacy take place from the ages of 0 to 8 years.

Content Area Literacy refers to the ability to use reading and writing for the acquisition of new content area in a given discipline. According to Chall's theory Content Area Literacy take place from the ages of 8years and over. At this stage the students read expository , non-fiction and informative text.

[kmitchell]

Developmental literacy is the process by which an individual goes through the learning to read phase. Through this phase the student develop word skills to identify words. which help them become more fluent readers.

Content area literacy deal with the students ability to comprehend the text of a specific to subject area. It also help students to comprehend the specific language of the content area.

[tessaimable]

Developmental literacy can be seen as learning to read where students are becoming acquainted with words.
Content area literacy is however reading to learn where students read in order to gain knowledge or an understanding of a topic.

[canthony]

Developmental Literacy refers to moving from one reading or writing stage to the next. For example in Chall's stages of reading development from stage 0-3 students are learning to read and from stages 3-6 students are reading to learn, moving from one stage to the next is a developmental process. On the other hand Content area literacy refers to implementing various reading and writing strategies in different subject areas by using multiple text to enable students to read, write, understand and to see them from a critical point of view.

[juecher]

Developmental literacy is defined as the progression of the individual cognitively toward the goal of becoming an independent reader and writer. For e.g In a child's early stages of cognitive development, the child gains an appreciation and enjoyment of print which evolves at a later stage of cognitive development to combining speaking and listening with what is already known about print. It is then that the child is ready to learn to read and write.

Content area literacy is defined as the ability to use reading and writing for the acquisition of new content in a given discipline. Such ability includes: general literacy skills, content-specific literacy skills (for e.g map reading in Social Studies) and prior content knowledge. (McKenna and Robinson, 1990)

[juecher]

Re: tessaimable


Literacy is being able to read and write and so the key ideas of the definitions must include writing as well.

Developmental literacy: learning to read and write

Content area literacy: reading and writing to learn