Social Literacy is a student’s successful performance and understanding of social Skills, organizational skills,

and communication skills. It is the student’s ability to connect effectively with those around them. Social literacy
spans across interacting with peers, family, coworkers, teachers, and even people we may not have met face
to face.
 
Social literacy is so crucial in a person’s success. The ability to communicate and voice opinions and thoughts,
as well as listening to opinions and thoughts of others, is essential in learning. Firmly grasping social cues and
norms is extremely beneficial. In literally every single setting of our lives: school, home, work, clubs and
activities, interacting with people (whether face to face or behind technology), we use our social literacy. We
play so many roles every day and we socially need to understand how to play those roles appropriately. For
example: I would speak differently with my friends than I would my mother, or I would chat on Facebook
differently than I would while emailing a professor. Without an understanding of this communication, one
cannot function with success in society. 

Social Literacy is "the development of social skills in a social setting, which helps people to communicate in a
respectful manner, as well as becoming involved in a community."

Social literacy emerges at a very young age. Social literacy starts when a child starts to communicate with
others. Children at a very young age start to learn what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. For example,
most children learn at a young age when it is acceptable for them to express what they are thinking. As we
grow older, we learn more on how we should act towards others. As we move into future generations, social
literacy has broadened. It is no longer face-to-face interactions. Children are also learning what is acceptable
to do when relating to technology. Since technology is becoming more prevalent in our lives, children must also
learn how to respectively interact using technology.
Social literacy, from the perspective of the social-cultural theory, is more than the ability to read and write, and
more than mastering literacy skills. Children can learn literacy through social interaction between themselves
and children and/or adults in or outside school. Adults can use books, games, toys, conversations, field trips,
and stories to develop the literacy practices through fun. Collaborative learning between schools, family, and
community can help develop a child's literacy. In addition, given today's technical knowledge, adults can take
into consideration how to use technology in the learning process and to employ it in teaching children how to
read and write in a social context. "Literacy practices and events are always situated in social, cultural,
historical and political relationships and embedded in structures of power. Furthermore, literacy practices
involve social regulation of text, i.e. who has access to it and who can produce it, and such practices are
purposeful and embedded in broader social goals and cultural practices. Moreover, these practices change
and new ones are frequently acquired through processes of informal learning and sense-making" (p. 23). For
that reasons, teachers can design multiple levels of literacy activities and practices to fit different students'
abilities and way of learning and "provide a pedagogical approach which fosters communities of learners, plan
classroom activities that embed meaningful opportunities to engage in the analysis and construction of
multimodal texts, and utilize teaching approaches that move beyond the false tension between abstracting the
codes of language and learning their application for meaningful purposes" (p. 126).
Social skills are the skills we use to communicate and interact with each other, both verbally and non-verbally,
through gestures, body language and our personal appearance. Human beings are sociable creatures and we
have developed many ways to communicate our messages, thoughts and feelings with others.
Human values are the principles, convictions and internal beliefs that people adopt and follow in their daily
activities.