My Definition Of Literacy

Literacy, the ability to read and write, is the foundation and general structure to learning as well as understanding any kind of information. In the words of Kofi Annan, “Literacy is…the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.” Being able to identify your literacy roots can be rather difficult, and incomprehensible. When seeking a single definition for literacy, one may find it to be nearly impossible as there is not just one, but many. The best way to tackle this uncertainty, is to first identify who your literacy sponsors are. A sponsorship, can be defined as the people and elements in your life that have made a great impact in your literacy journey. Each one furthering …show more content…
However, I recall one of my earliest and fondest memories of where my literacy journey began. As a young child, I liked to scribble crayon all over anything I deemed as acceptable to ruin. Although, I did not yet understand what I was doing, I deeply felt in my heart that I was meant to draw. The feeling of satisfaction that emerged from within every time I produced a work of art was invigorating. I loved drawing. In fact, I still do, I just have a deeper appreciation for it now. I can infer that these early memories of drawing left such a great impression on me, that it was the birth of a new interest on the road to becoming literate. Expressing myself through the use of imagination and creativity certainly felt like the correct place to start. In school I was taught to stay inside the lines. I did not like this rule. There was just something so alluring, and pleasing about the idea of coloring outside the lines. For every assignment, I would doodle a picture at the bottom of the page, and every project I would go the extra mile. For the sake of keeping my “teachers pet” title, I would make them cards. I felt so much joy in the moments I would draw, that I searched for new ways to use my skill other than just for