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"What do you think of when you hear the word literacy? Depending on what you teach, chances are geography is not the first thought that comes to mind. But believe it or not, geography and literacy naturally share many similarities. And you can deepen students’ learning in both geography and literacy when they are integrated in the curriculum."
Tony Hall's insight:
It makes me angry when people disparage the place of Geography (and indeed, other Humanities/Social Sciences) in developing literacy. The link is so blindingly obvious that it simply blows my mind. Anyhoo, hopefully you'll find something useful here. 
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Geography provides a lot of fundamental knowledge and gives you also a sense of place, which I find very relevant in times of globalization where you belong everywhere and nowhere simultaneously.
Understanding key terminology in geography is paramount to demonstrating deep knowledge of geographical concepts.
In this report, a researcher describes the relationship between geography and literacy on educational terms. When combined, these two very similar topics would provide major benefits to a child curriculum in school giving them a better insight on geography through literary concepts. These certain concepts help kids better recognize relationships within graphs and charts that give valuable geographic information. This article helps prove geography as a field of inquiry based on its relations with other subjects that help enhance the knowledge among the children in any school curriculum.