Literacy and Numeracy Focus

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 Literacy and numeracy are the most crucial skills to a person’s ability to develop fully and fit into society. These two areas of learning cover vital factors that are linked in understanding the society through expressing, analyzing and problem solving. Children and young people need increasingly sophisticated levels of language and mathematics in order to take care of their health and wellbeing, participate in the workforce and make a positive contribution to the society. Mathematics supports us to analyze and reason about the nature of the world while language enables us to communicate effectively, which is vital to feeling connected to the people around us ("Why literacy and numeracy?", 2017). Providing problem solving activities in reading, writing, listening, speaking and numerating problems could enable students’ competencies in literacy and numeracy focus.

Integrating literacy and numeracy in the learning process may need certain activities that could cover both areas such as, buying and selling products, calculating coordinates, mini census research and so forth. When students engaged in these activities, they are given the opportunity to exposed themselves to the use of both literacy and numeracy focus. Strategies and activities should focus on supporting learners to acquire the skills and practices that are relevant to their knowledge in problem solving both in literacy and numeracy. For example, engaging in selling and buying products. This activity required students to master speaking skills and becoming critical thinkers because they are engaging in immediate problem solving when it comes to deciding their prices and also use variety of expressing techniques to attract shoppers’ attention in buying their products.

Furthermore, all teachers are responsible for teaching literacy and numeracy through many practices no matter what subjects they teach ("Numeracy across the curriculum", n.d.). For example, in social science, literacy and numeracy focus could be used in basic map work. Students could achieve numerate skills when learning about maps because they could be challenged in finding estimated coordinates of different places and being literate when trying to express their answers with their peers.  

In conclusion, students should practice adequate skills for literacy and numeracy so they could survive in many aspects of society. Teachers should have understood on how to teach these skills to pupils, so students are well equipped when stepping out from school walls. Children who do not learn to read, write and communicate effectively from early ages are more likely to experience hardship in life such as, leave school early, be unemployed or in low skilled jobs, have poorer emotional and physical health and are so forth ("Why are early literacy and numeracy important?", 2013).


Bibliography: 

Why are early literacy and numeracy important? (2013). Retrieved from https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=aaschsslarts.

Why literacy and numeracy? (2017). Retrieved 22 December 2020, from https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/support/litnumstrat.

Numeracy across the curriculum. (n.d) Retrieved from https://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/teachers_role_in_promoting_literacy_and_numeracy.pdf.

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