What is cultural literacy?
Cultural literacy is the "knowledge of history, contributions, and perspectives of different cultural groups, including one's own group, necessary for understanding of reading, writing, and other media."
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"Cultural literacy requires familiarity with a broad range of general knowledge and implies the use of that knowledge in the creation of a communal language and collective knowledge."
So basically,
Cultural literacy is not only having background knowledge in many different areas, but using that knowledge to understand the literacy you are coming into contact with.
Test your own cultural literacy!
Take one of these cultural literacy tests to see what your cultural literacy is about one of the topics you are teaching on. You can also test your students' cultural literacy!