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One of the first defining moments of literacy that I can remember is reading to my children. What comes to mind is reading The Night Before Christmas from the Golden Book collection. It was the first time I can remember when reading went way beyond words, punctuation and comprehension. It was not a one dimensional experience, it became a multi dimensional experience. Instead of the act of reading it became the art of reading encompassing social, humanistic, nurturing and family values. Reading this story to my young children for the first time was not just the communication a story, but communicating love, bonding, nurturing, values, storytelling and feelings at an intimate or literacy primate level. It was one of the first tme words became 3 dimensional, sentences became thoughts and paragraphs became dreams and visions of a unique exereince that my children (and myself) would acquire for Christmas for their first time. Literacy became a way of communicating a value system. The choice of the book became the way Christmas values was introduced to my children and the experiences and wonderment they would hold, much the same way as I held the wonderment and experiences of Christmas in my life. This was one of my first experience of the richness of the “circle of life” that literacy discourse can perpetuate.   

Startup Blog for EDS654

First message in my blogspot. This is to get the kinks out, famliarize with the navigation and walk through the setup options. 02/10/11.