Emerging Literacy

Emergent literacy is used to describe how a young child interacts with books and when reading and writing, even though they could not read or write in the usual sense of way. Emergent literacy is a process that takes place over the timeframe from birth until a child can read and write in what we think to be a standard sense. The key to term literacy is the consistency of all parts of language: speaking, listening, reading, writing, and viewing. Some people believe that, up until a child starts school he/she will first learn to read and then learn to write. The process to learning to read and write has to start early in a child's life. Right away they have contact with different types of communication from the start.

I use many of the strategies suggested in Chapter 2 of Literacy for the 21st Century (5th Edition). During the reading process I like to engage my students in a pre-reading activity prior to being exposed to the text. I usually use an anticipation guide and allow my students to discuss or debate the statements. I then attempt to set purpose and build background knowledge by introducing my students to the author and social context of the text. We then discuss the standard(s) associated with the content. My students participate in a variety of styles of reading. Some days they read independently, some days we do shared reading, and others we do read aloud. As we do this, students are required to interact with the text by completing a task. The

Emergent literacy is important because the literacy development begins earlier than formal schooling. Phonological awareness, letter names, and letter-sound knowledge are essential for beginning reading instruction. Phonemic awareness is a strong predictor of success in the first two years of schooling. Additionally, letter knowledge is the first step to learn the alphabetic principle and one of the most important early reading skills. Several studies investigated Visual Phonics with preschoolers and revealed significant improvements during these fundamental early years.

Purpose – how will this experience meet the needs and interests of the children? How will this experience contribute to the child(ren)’ emerging literacy skills

America has an ever so slowly changing literacy rate; 32 million people in the US cannot read. High poverty countries have lower literacy rates and stricter countries have a proficient gender difference in literacy rate. The United States is a booming country, surrounded by new technology and communication. The impact this new generation has on illiterate people is so devastating, it comes to the point where you can’t fully live because verbal communication is not always available. Some people are unable to read drug labels, or have access to healthcare. It is also costing taxpayers 20 billion dollars a year. Parents who are illiterate are having a huge impact on their children; without having being exposed to books outside of school their

This year's Just Read Florida theme is Civics-Literacy related, "Literacy Changes Our World". Our Cambridge students participated in an outreach program which combined the 2 subject areas. In LA, Melmood's students brought a copy of their favorite novels and wrote messages inside the covers to the next reader sharing their thoughts. In Civics, Beitz's students made children's books which explain the Bill of Rights in terms that 7th graders can understand. Santangelo even had some extra books from her project. We took the boxes of books to Silver Lakes Middle yesterday, a school chosen for its low SES band of students.

This chapter provided me with literacy areas that I will incorporate into my future classroom and recommendations for setting up and designing the classroom environment. Some of the areas I plan to set up are a book area, listening area, and writing area. These are the areas of the classroom that I am most excited to create for my students. I hope to create an environment that motivates my students to want to visit each area. I love the tips for the writing area and it is a space that always draws my attention in a classroom. I usually observe a writing area in each classroom, but it seems when it is time for centers students seem to skip over that area and attempt to blend in with their friends in the reading area. I think that if I create

Everybody has a moment that puts their life into perspective; a moment where everything just clicks, but sometimes that moment can open up more questions than answers. A person’s life can depend a lot on their surroundings, but regardless of the circumstances they’re in, it is up to them to decide how it will affect them. One event could affect each person differently in such a way that there is an indeterminate amount of possibilities in one person’s life, and they will have to be the ones to take it upon themselves to decide. My moment made me decide to learn new languages, to learn about cultures, to communicate. I wanted to live in a world where there would be no hassle in traveling, no language barriers, and no discrimination.

“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.

Critical literacy can be defined as the ability to interpret and analyze text to form an opinion

I firmly believe that my experiences working with children, as well as my experiences as a student, facilitated my growth, knowledge, and understanding of literacy throughout this course, as I found myself relating my own experiences to those presented in the required readings, chats, handouts, and assignments.

During my childhood my comprehension of the word “literacy” was not as developed as it is now. Back in those days I thought literacy was a person’s ability to read and write, but as I progressed in age that understanding augmented. Today my grasp of literacy is far more intricate. Literacy expands further than just reading and writing; it is the foundation of how everybody learns and processes certain information, it also has even been integrated with technologies of the modern world. Thanks to the internet we have access to any information that we want, but you need literacy to understand it in the first place. Personally I feel as if literacy cannot be mastered it has no end, you learn more about it until you die. My justification for this

During the Colloquium class we discussed about the Emergent Reading or Emergent Literacy, our professor explained to us that teachers need to have children with the knowledge of reading and writing skills before they learn how to read and write words. As we go outside with them we need to encourage our children or students to look at the signs in front of the store, including asking question about how many bottle of water we have in the shopping car. However, my facilitator said that we have to talk clearly to them, if the child is learning to talk and starting to ask questions. When they mispronounced words or they don’t pronounce in the correct form, we have to be there to clarify for them. For example, if the students ask for a glass

New literacies change the teaching of reading in many ways. Reading is no longer considered a process where students sit and read, analyze or discuss information only from books, printed articles or newspaper. As new technology shape literacies, children are now required to be exposed to so much more. Today, new literacy calls for teachers to teach literacy instruction through the use of technologies in order to enhance learning and productivity. Technologies such as computers, interactive whiteboards, word processing and desktop publishing, multimedia publishing, E-books, audio/video recordings, television programs, just to name a few.

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