My Literacy Deficits

In this third post, I'd like to use this blog forum to discuss a literacy issue that  I face constantly.

I am well-educated, an experienced educator and Literacy is my business.  I shy away from the deficit model when I consider my students' situations and prefer to focus on their strengths. I tell my learners "You see, you can do this, you just didn't know you could".

So why is it that I struggle so much with my literacies?

My writing appears to make sense to me when I am at the keyboard or pen. But when I review it, it becomes a strange, unwieldy, clumsy morass of badly-expressed phrases.

When I talk,  eyes go vacant. This incredible, sophisticated lexicon that history has bestowed upon me, seems to attach itself like glutamates to my meanings, and fall as a sticky, incoherent mass.

My reading becomes a metaphorical form of open-cast mining. I scratch the surface for what I want from the text, discarding that which might detract from my prior notions, and I leave the original text's meanings unrecognisable to it's originator.

Clearly, I need to go back to basics.