Arizona Schools Focus On Literacy

Summary: Teaching a child to read is the foremost goal of any school. Some would say it's the most important thing anyone will ever learn; this is most definitely true. Schools across the nation strive to achieve excellence in reading education, known as literacy to those in the biz. These institutes of learning want to turn out students who read and read well, and some are recognized for these efforts. Arizona Public Schools are among them. Several different corporations exist wh...

Teaching a child to read is the foremost goal of any school. Some would say it's the most important thing anyone will ever learn; this is most definitely true. Schools across the nation strive to achieve excellence in reading education, known as literacy to those in the biz. These institutes of learning want to turn out students who read and read well, and some are recognized for these efforts. Arizona Public Schools are among them. Several different corporations exist who, in part, recognize and award Arizona Schools who have gone above and beyond when devising a program or curriculum to help students achieve literacy. Arizona Schools have worked hard to ensure that its students have the opportunity to learn to read, and to take that knowledge to another level. But what is literacy? It is being literate - which is so much more than just being able to sound out words and read aloud slowly. Being literate is even more than being able to read aloud with clarity and adequate flow. Literacy encompasses all manner of skills that many of us, as adults, are unaware we even have. We do not remember learning them, we just know them! As the teachers of Arizona Schools know, achieving literacy is mastering the following list of skills: * Understanding and identifying the main idea * Grasping cause and effect * The ability to pick out the details that support the main idea * Mastery of basic grammar - nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns * Knowing how to use punctuation correctly - periods, commas, question marks, etc