Designing A Literacy Program Is Making The Blocks

Within my school teaching literacy takes place in everyday classroom. The format of this teaching varies to include different activities for each day. Certain aspects of literacy are taught every week. The teachers are to ensure that the work planned is appropriate for the age stage and ability of the children. They use strategies such as talk partners and small group work to allow children to develop their oral skills and ability to communicate and cooperate with their peers. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of effective oracy skills in the early years and foundation phase. Role play areas are set up in partnership with the children so that they can practice speaking Listening and drama based activities within a meanful context.

As a future teacher of a fast-changing generation that searches restlessly for new interests, I believe that old and new must meet to keep the basic values of a balanced literacy. Focusing on prior knowledge, collaborating with colleagues, peers, families, and community, creating connections with our surrounding, and empowering students’ learning style throughout the process of gaining knowledge of reading and writing. Foremost, my personal philosophy of teaching literacy is based on constructivism and sociolinguistic, where hands on experience and guidance are priority in an informational world. To facilitate a child’s acquisition of literacy skills , as I plan for literacy instruction for my future classroom, I will take into consideration

Literacy embraces reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Integrating all of these into a literacy program is key. Teachers must provide endless and ongoing opportunities for their student to read, write, listen, and speak.

Literacy Collaborative is high quality program oriented around rigorous instruction and purposeful teacher-student interactions. It is a framework based on authentic, global, and holistic language acquisition, which include both reading and writing workshops. Within this framework teachers differentiate instruction through flexible grouping such as whole-class, small group and/or individualized instruction. Additionally, teachers create opportunities for students to engage in targeted activites throught the utilization of interactive and shared reading experiences as well as tailored vocabulary and phonologica awareness lessons designed to met individual needs. The Literacy Collaborative framework strives to ehance student learning through engagement, purpose, systematic routines, data based instruction, and targeted interventions. Students are encourage to beome an active participant in their learning experience through student choice, open-ended question, and targeted

One of the most eye opening experiences of my life occurred in the second grade. I would have never thought that doing one simple assignment in elementary school could change my whole perspective on literacy. My understanding of literacy was sparked when I had read my first real book. I remember sitting down on the vividly colorful carpet day dreaming about playing Mario Cart on my Nintendo 64 while everyone was obediently listening to the teacher read a book out loud. It wasn’t that I did not know how to read or listen, I just didn’t care. Reading to me used to be tedious because I did not understand the purpose of it. I did not grow up with the luxury of my parents reading to me because they weren’t literate in English, so I had to figure out for myself why literacy is vital in everyday life. My ongoing learning experience with literacy can be traced back to one simple visit to library.

As per our conversation, attached please find Literacy Connections budget for our Adult Basic Literacy program in Orange County.

Celestine’s (pseudo name) school is located in the country side, on the sleepy town of Plant City, Florida. From what it looks like a scene from a children’s book, the main building sits perfectly between beautiful strawberry fields. Celestine’s school is Title 1 by cause of 88% of its students being on free or reduced lunch. The school has approximately 807 students, but its population fluctuates due to migrant and low income families attending. Plant City is known for its farming community and the Strawberry Industry, which it draws families to the area for seasonal work. The Elementary school serves pre K to Fifth grade students and has a population made up of 50% White students, 45% Hispanic students, 3% Black students, and 2% Two or more races. The school has a large ESE population which are served in both, self-contained classrooms and within regular education classrooms through inclusion.

It is reassuring to know you understand the urgency of the crisis Literacy Orange is currently under, and have taken a positive, first step to resolve the matter. We, at Literacy Connections, understand the current financial and staff problems you are facing and, for almost a year, have actively communicated and worked with Christine and other staff members in hopes of bringing the organization back to a stabilized and sustainable position. However, as you can imagine, this is no easy task. We will continue to try to approach this crisis with the sensitivity and urgency it requires.

For this assignment, I completed a survey to assess my school’s literacy program by using a survey that was adapted from by Patty, Maschoff, & Ransom (1996) to analyze the instructional program and the school’s infrastructure. To be able to answer my survey, I needed to go colleagues of mine in the English Department and to my administration to help with these questions. Being a math teacher, we hardly ever discuss the literacy and the students’ acquisition of it in our department meeting during staff development days. Since I am not truly current with literacy acquisition in education, I am hoping to understand more from this process so I can help all my students. I want them to be able to read texts related to math and find

The man nods his head,”Yes I told you that, but it wasn't true. You see there are a lot of people on-line that pretend to be kids; I was one of them. While other people do it to hurt them, I do it to protect them and show them the dangers of giving out to much information on-line. I came here to teach you how dangerous it is to give out personal information to strangers. You gave me enough information where it was easy for me to find you.”

Literacy is defined as being literate, that is, being able to read and write in a language. My personal experience with literacy began at an early age, at the age of 4 when I began to sit and read words and letters in the back of my mother’s car. Soon enough, she would bring me a magazine called “Majed” which, in the 90’s, was a popular magazine. With this, I began even more interested in reading and writing and reviewed every word in the magazine associated with each of the short pictured stories. It was the first memory I deeply recall of literacy and it was what laid the foundation for my personal love of reading and writing. The methodology used for this is an interview. There are three interviews which are analyzed and brought together in the form of a narrative. This narrative serves to better explain the emotions and thoughts that the interviewees had about the idea of literacy.

“Emergent Biliteracy” a term described by Iliana Reyes that refers to the ongoing, dynamic development of concepts and expertise for thinking, listening, speaking, reading and writing in two languages. In addition to her first definition, she also states how children’s use of cultural and linguistics competencies help them establish meaning with parents, siblings, peers, and teachers in their environment. Through exploration of different perceptions, resources, and social interactions she is able discover the ways in which 3 four year old Mexican American children from Northern Arizona develop and strengthen their bilingual and emergent biliteracy development in Spanish and English.

Literacy pedagogies have a developing and complex history in education, intertwined with social and cultural change and evolution. Each change has paved a new path for more significant approaches and strategies, which cater to diverse learners allowing them to create meaning and communicate more effectively. These literacy pedagogies brought out by the changes in education have both strengths and weaknesses. As such, educators need to explore and understand the four knowledge processes portrayed by Kalantzis, Cope, Chan and Dalley-Trim; didactic, authentic, functional, and critical literacy approach (2016), to be able to consider how they can influence teaching and learning so they are able to make informed decisions with regards to their students’ literacy learning. Teaching is becoming increasingly complex; this is particularly evident in the area of literacy. This paper will explore the four literacy pedagogies, their limitations and their strengths, and how they have impacted literacy learning within the Australian educational context.

During the last 3 decades, increased attention has been focused upon the effects of emergent literacy in an early childhood education environment and children 's later knowledge (Roberts, Jurgens, & Burchinal, 2005). It was once believed that children learned to read and write only when they entered elementary school and received specific instruction. However, most research now indicates that a preschool environment is critical in the development of a variety of cognitive and linguistic skills and that it is an important factor in early literacy development (Levy, Gong, Hessels, Evans, & Jared, 2006; Rashia, Morris, & Sevick, 2005; Weigel, Martin, & Bennett, 2006). Research has shown that home experiences need to

As a current library media specialist at an elementary school, I have also had the privileged of working as an elementary school teacher for twenty years. I believe that it is the teacher’s position and duty today to help scaffold each child’s learning ability in order to help them achieve their fullest potential within literacy learning. I want to create a school environment and a program that will meet the fundamental knowledge skills