Academic success depends on classroom literacy development and students’ content comprehension. Scholars define literacy development as a process of acquiring skills for communicating written messages. Markedly, research indicates that classroom literacy development in most circumstances influences students’ content comprehension. Notably, during the early stages of learning, individuals learn how to read. However, as learners progress to complex educational stages, they read to learn. Thus, achieving a student’s academic success will require a student to be a good reader. Therefore, this shows that there exists a crucial relationship between literacy skills and content comprehension. It is therefore crucial for every learner to acquire these skills to achieve academic success.
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PROMOTING CLASSROOM LITERACY DEVELOPMENT
Of importance, to note is that educators can promote classroom literacy development in several ways. Firstly, they can create an environment that is rich with literature materials. These materials may include books and word walls. Notably, the presence of the materials creates an urge of reading among the students. Thus, the students end up reading more often and as a result, the students’ content comprehension improves. Additionally, creating time for independent reading may also help to promote classroom literacy development. During this time, the learners will feel the compulsion to read together as a class. As a result, they will be able to grasp adequate content, which will ensure a student’s academic success.
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FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ CONTENT COMPREHENSION
As aforementioned, classroom literacy development can either have a positive or negative contribution to students’ content comprehension. This is because as one progresses in learning, they have to read to learn. Thus, poor literacy development will lead to poor content comprehension. On the other hand, good literacy development will lead to good content comprehension, resulting in a student’s academic success. As a result, factors affecting content comprehension revolve around literacy development. Firstly, these factors include the interest to read. Without the interest, a student will lack the motivation to read. Therefore, even if they try reading, they will not be able to grasp the content. Additionally, the learner’s ability to read also affects their reading. Mainly because poor knowledge on the subject will impede their understanding of the subject.
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