assessment 1 literacy and language

The speaker reflects on their memories of literacy and language, mentioning that they didn't have their parents read to them as a child. They discuss how literacy is more than just reading and writing, encompassing various forms of communication. They mention the importance of critically analyzing texts in a technological world. The speaker also reflects on the significance of sound and how it played a role in their communication and learning. They mention their experiences at prayer meetings and how it helped them grow. They recall remembering hymns and the National Anthem, which evoke a sense of home. The speaker concludes by thanking their daughter for singing the National Anthem in Maori and apologizes for their own rendition. Good evening my fellow students. Welcome to my assessment podcast. I will apologise now and this will become quite obvious what for later in the podcast. My memories of literacy and language are of school, age maybe 9 or 10. I started school in 1970, a long time ago. I have no memory of my parents ever reading to me as a child. I'm not sure if this is something that just wasn't done then, being led to the teachers to teach the children to read and write. I feel this is something that has been accepted later on as I remember reading to my children when they were young and now it seems more important for the child to grow. I'm surprised but not surprised to learn that literacy and language is not just reading and writing. It's everything changes and grows as we learn more and with our teaching practices. Some of the things included as set out by the EYLF. Literacy is the capacity, confidence and disposition to learn language in all of its forms. Literacy incorporates the range of modes of communication including music, movement, dance, storytelling, visual arts, media and drama as well as talking, listening, viewing, reading and writing. Contemporary texts include electronics and print-based media. In an increasing technological world the ability to be critically analysed texts is a key component. Notice that listening was included but not sound. I find that sound of the ocean has a voice in my head. It means I'm safe and feels like home. I'm not sure that this is a language, the sounds that surround us. I know that this is how animals communicate to each other or is this their words that we don't understand. Thinking back now I realise that when my parents held prayer meetings at our home this would be one of the ways I would learn how to communicate with other people. We would have someone talk and sing hymns and then we had supper. Little did I know that handing out biscuits, cakes and a cup of tea to these adults would be a way of learning and helping me to grow. This year as many people did I watched a little of the Queen's funeral and realised just how many of the hymns I knew. It's quite amazing how things stick in your mind even if you don't use them for a long time. It's surprising to me that I can remember things like this but can easily forget someone's name five minutes after I've met them. The other thing that really stands out in my memory is at school when we had assembly on Monday mornings, the National Anthem. I hear it very little but still remember every word as if it was yesterday and it takes me home every time. National Anthem. God of nations at thy feet, in the bonds of love we meet, hear our voices we entreat, God defend our free land, God persue fixed triple star, from the shafts of strife and war, make her praises heard afar, God defend New Zealand. Thanks to my beautiful daughter for singing the National Anthem in Maori, which she learnt when she spent a year in New Zealand studying. And thank you for listening to my version of the New Zealand National Anthem in English. I know it was quite painful. Have a good night.