Literacy Narrative As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and...

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Literacy Narrative As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing, and learning how to communicate with others, and express yourself. We...

Literacy Narrative

As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing, and learning how to communicate with others, and express yourself.

We learn about communication in our earliest discourse communities, and our cultures and backgroundshavea profound influence on our ideas of literacy. These ideas often become deeply ingrained as good or bad without much thought about to how these views have come to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy–of reading and writing–exploring these ideas throughthoughtful and honest close self-examination can allow usto understand how our attitudes and habits were formed, and grow as a reader, awriter, and a thinker.

Choose a Topic: Consider the following ideas as you develop your essay focus:

Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then explain why this event is significant to you now.

Describe someone who taught you to read or write and explain this person’s significance in your life.

Identify a book or other text and explain its significance for youin your reading and writing.

Narrate an experience with a writing or reading task that you found (or still find) difficult or challenging.

Describe a memento and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development.

Then Create a Narrative:

Use sound writing and story-telling skills to organize and articulate your story.

Make sure to stay focused on your one, main idea.

Write an essay -at least 500 words or more, usingMLA format(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Review pages 84-90 in the Norton Field Guide for more information about writing a Literacy Narrative.

Review chapters 40 (Describing), 41 (Dialogue) and 43 (Narrating)

Essential Elements:

Create a well-told story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details.

Develop your main idea. (make sure you only have one main idea)

Develop the significance, or effect of, your experience

Use strong, complete, varied sentences

Organize paragraphs in a logical way, using topic sentences

State the main idea of your essay somewhere in your introduction, and then make certain that every supporting paragraph relates to and supports that main idea

Use concrete, vivid descriptions and focus on a specific event

Consider using dialogue between the characters in your narrative, if you feel comfortable

Write a minimum ofthree pages.

Use MLA format

Demonstrate growth and improvement from the first drafts to the final revised draft.

Proofread!

Final Note: Develop your essay to its potential. Give yourself time to write this essay and you may find that you’ve created a moving, powerful piece of writing—perhaps your best work ever!

See a sample essay below:

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Rubric

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Criteria

Ratings

Pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIdeas and Development

30.0ptsExceeds expectations: The narrative is consistently focused, clear, purposeful, and always meets the needs of the audience. It is enhanced by well-placed, vivid, rich detail that captures the reader’s interest. The narrative is a well-told, fully-developed story of a literacy event/events of explicit significance that is memorable to the reader. It displays insight of some depth and demonstrates substantial self-reflection and self-awareness.

25.0pts_Meets expectations: The narrative is generally clear, focused, purposeful, adequately-developed, and usually meets the needs of the audience. It is enhanced by some detail that catches the reader’s attention and is told in a way that makes significance evident. The narrative shows evidence of the writer’s insight and shows some self-reflection and self-awareness.

20.0ptsAlmost meets expectations: The narrative is partially clear and focused but not consistently so, and the writer may lose sight of audience needs and purpose. Detail is sketchy and not particularly vivid or engaging, and the narrative is not fully developed. The significance of the literacy event/events is unclear, so the narrative therefore shows little evidence of insight, self-reflection, or self-awareness.

10.0ptsDoes not meet expectations: The narrative lacks focus and purpose, leaving the audience confused. Little to no effective detail in the narrative fails to engage audience interest, and the narrative is inadequately developed. The narrative leaves the reader with many questions about the significance of the literacy event/events. Insight, self-reflection, and self-awareness are minimal or absent.

30.0pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeOrganization

30.0ptsExceeds expectations: Narrative components connect clearly to one another. The narrative creatively engages the reader with a consistently strong internal structure that organizes the story and purposefully moves the reader easily through the text.

25.0ptsMeets expectations: The narrative engages the reader and has a distinct structure that moves the reader easily through a progression of logically-sequenced paragraphs.

20.0ptsAlmost meets expectations: The narrative has a discernible structure but is not organized in a consistently effective manner, causing some confusion and difficulty in easily following the text.

10.0ptsDoes not meet expectations: The narrative lacks cohesive structure. Organization and sequencing are haphazard and ineffective, which leaves the reader confused and unable to follow the text

30.0pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeVoice/Attention to Audience

30.0ptsExceeds expectations: The energy and tone of the language forcefully drive the narrative, making the text lively, expressive, and engaging. Use of description and dialogue enrich the narrative and add interest and depth to the story.

25.0ptsMeets expectations: The tone of the language reveals the writer’s personality and makes the narrative entertaining and interesting. Descriptive detail and use of dialogue is used appropriately throughout the story.

20.0ptsAlmost meets expectations: The language and tone of the narrative are somewhat clichéd or lack energy and/or authenticity. Descriptive details are incorporated and dialogue is used to develop characters on occasion.

10.0ptsDoes not meet expectations: The language and tone are flat, inexpressive, and unengaging. The story lacks descriptive detail and dialogue.

30.0pts

This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle and Conventions

10.0ptsExceeds expectations: Vocabulary and word use are consistently precise, vivid, varied, and create sharp images in the reader’s mind. Sentences are all well-crafted and consistently varied in structure, length, and beginning. The writer demonstrates a firm, unerring grasp of the conventions of written English (spelling, capitalization, punctuation, mechanics). The writing is virtually error-free

8.0ptsMeets expectations: Vocabulary and word use are for the most part accurate and work to create strong images in the reader’s mind. Sentences display some evident variety in construction and length with occasional sentence structure errors. Contains only minor errors in grammar, spelling, or mechanics. Format is polished and shows effort in proofreading and editing.

5.0ptsAlmost meets expectations: Vocabulary and word use are unremarkable, and occasional word misuse or confusion could occur. There are more frequent errors in sentence structure. Contains several minor errors in grammar, spelling, mechanics or formatting

3.0ptsDoes not meet expectations: Vocabulary and word use are imprecise, simplistic, confused. Noticeable occurrences of faulty, unclear sentence constructions make the text extremely difficult to read. The writer demonstrates a limited grasp of the conventions of written English, with multiple grammatical and mechanical errors which seriously impairs the essay’s readability. Format is inconsistent or not appropriate.

10.0pts

Total Points:100.0

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Chosen Topic: Identify a book or other text and explain its significance for you in your reading and writing.
Since the times I remember, reading has been an indispensable part of my life. My mother told me how I always held my head stuck in books. Of all the memories I had, reading my first storybook, ‘Thumbelina,’ all by myself, was one of the greatest experiences of reading, I ever had. It was a large book with beautiful pictures and brilliantly colorful. The book was given to me by my grandmother on my 7th birthday. I still remember, the night after my birthday party, my grandma came to my room and handed over a gift pack to me along with a Choco-pie. The moment I unwrapped the package, I jumped in happiness and hugged her tight. I then took her to the bed and asked her to read it for me. However, my grandmother denied and instead she said that she would love...

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