LITERACY DEVELOPMENT

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LITERACY DEVELOPMENT

• Chap 12

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WRITING

• Writing is developmental
• Scribbles that resemble writing
• Letter shapes without sound association
• Letters with sound association
• See Table12-3

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READING

• Environment should be rich in reading
  materials-signs, labels,
• Environment should be rich in books
• Stages of early shared book reading
• Belief that words are imbedded in pictures
• Belief that words are read to form the story
• Memorization of words seen as reading
• Beginning to find meanings in letters, words

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PROMOTING LITERACY

• When learning to read
• Imbedded reading strategies are useful
• Explicit reading strategies are required by most
  children
• Read daily
• Group and individual read-aloud by the
  teacher
• Teacher asks for predictions

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Promoting Literacy, contd

• 2. Create a print-rich environment
• Provide opportunities for children to write
• as well as read
• 3. Plan phonemic awareness games that teach
  sounds and their association with alphabet
  symbols
• 4. Story writing using invented spelling

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Promoting Literacy, contd

• Design literacy-play activities

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CULTURAL VARIATIONS IN EMERGENT LITERACY

• Some cultures emphasize verbal story-telling
• Some cultures emphasize drama, dance, art
• Some cultures emphasize casual reading material
  over books

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ADDRESSING LANGUAGE LITERACY DELAYS

• Develop a language-rich environment
• Have access to speech therapy services
• To promote phonology rhymes, poems, tongue
  twisters, songs,
• To promote semanticsintegrate vocab. dev.
  throughout the day
• To promote syntax Encourage expansion of childs
  language into full sentences

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Addressing Delays, contd

• Pragmatics Promote turn taking explicit
  teaching of manners integrating pragmatics into
  play
• Literacy Read individually and in groups
• provide props throughout classroom and model
  their use