Literacy: Fostering Lifelong Learning

Abstract

This chapter, as conceptualized by the three student authors, frames early literacy as of primary importance in fostering success in schooling. This is not surprising, of course, given the extensive corpus that yet grows on the topic; unique here, however, is the work that Grau, Mullins and Puszka do in disentangling, through narrative intervals, their own successful schooled experiences from larger proposals for educational policy change. That is, the authors use the experience of their schooling to suggest, but not prescribe, ways forward for fostering long-term success for all students in American K-12 education in the realm of literacy.KeywordsLiteracy SkillExtracurricular ActivityStandardize Test ScoreCommon Core State StandardPersonal AnecdoteThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.