Last week I encouraged you to thank a teacher. Hopefully, there was a teacher or other person in your life who taught you to love reading and/or writing.

You may remember a class that taught you things like: recognizing an author’s purpose; using context clues; seeing relationships/analogies; predicting outcomes, and more. You most likely did not appreciate learning them, but what you may or may not know is that you use those skills every day without the labels.

Think about times you have needed to evaluate a project in your home or work life. Our success often comes from learning to analyze well. Literacy weaves itself into our lives.