{"id":657,"date":"2015-08-31T00:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=657"},"modified":"2017-01-16T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T12:32:50","slug":"literacy-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/literacy-level\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>literacy level<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-layered nature of literacy continues to surprise me when I explore texts. When I reread, I&#8217;m often amazed by meanings I&#8217;ve overlooked\u2014and I think of myself as a close reader. Interpreting text can be like peeling an onion or opening those Russian dolls. International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/edu\/skills-beyond-school\/41529765.pdf\">comparisons<\/a> (pdf) show Finns overall have excellent reading skills, so we&#8217;re not inclined to doubt our skill at comprehension. Yet a third of us fall into lower levels of literacy even while believing we are good readers. The toughest texts to interpret are those employing irony and sarcasm. We&#8217;ve seen evidence of this in recent debate about education cuts, with student demonstrators carrying a banner that read, &#8220;Shove innovation up your ass.&#8221; I interpreted this as sarcasm, but many who saw the banner did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-layered nature of literacy continues to surprise me when I explore texts. When I reread, I&#8217;m often amazed by meanings I&#8217;ve overlooked\u2014and I think of myself as a close reader. Interpreting text can be like peeling an onion or opening those Russian dolls. International comparisons (pdf) show Finns overall have excellent reading skills, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-english","8":"category-wordoftheweek","9":"category-wordoftheweek-en","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}