Understanding and Improving Literacy Skills

Literacy is the understanding of reading and writing. People develop this skill by learning the language and be able speak, read, write, understand. This is important because people need to be able to communicate and understand reading the text. People learn their language when they were about 2 years old. They will learn it from their family and parents. After they know how to communicate with their family, they learn how to read and write. The grammar skill develop by the time and how much they use the English language. People learn the language by reading and understand the concept. People also need to know how to write and be able to make other people to understand their text, this mean literacy skill. You learn this by know the strategy of writing and understand the text when you read something. The more you read and write, you improve the literacy skill.

I know some English language before I moved to the United States. I didn 't use much grammar pretty well at that time. In Thailand, the public school didn 't teach students pretty well about using grammar. All they try to do is make students remember a word and their past tense. Mostly student don 't know what should they need to say when they talk in English. English is my second language, I need to learn and use it every day when I move to United States. I have great literacy skill for Thai language. I be able to understand more in my language compare to English. English language are very different than Thai language. I need to learn a lot to correct the grammar when writing text. When I was study in high school English class, I have a lot of hard time reading the novel that use the old English text. This was very hard thing that I have experience because I have hard time understand the text at first glance. I don 't get very well understand the story and the character emotion that the author of the book want to tell me. I have to read it again to