Essay on Promoting Literacy Development Through Writing

My literacy journey had begun earlier than most kids, according to my mother. I started reading in kindergarten, with help with the BOB books and the PBS show Between the Lions. I don’t know when I had started writing exactly, but I remember clearly writing short stories about my cat Stormy in 3rd grade. At that time we had to write weekly short stories, and I only ever wrote about my cat. In 4th grade, I had started exploring writing more; I would write plays for me and my friends to practice during recess. Most of them, I’m happy to say, were actually educational, so my teacher had even let my friends and I perform one about early-American settlers in front of our whole class.

Creating and implementing effective lessons for a literacy learner who is struggling with reading and writing takes much effort and appropriate resources. Throughout the Literacy Development course, I have gained much insight and resources that have become valuable tools in addressing students’ literacy needs. Each week, I conducted lessons and activities that targeted the needs of many students, but my initial focus on was on one particular student. His individual reading level, spelling development, and writing abilities were analyzed and the recorded data was used

She makes insightful contributions to class discussions and eagerly seeks further comprehension of topics. In her prepared speech, Genevieve exhibited eye-contact and expression. Her well planned content and use of humour and emotion were engaging. Genevieve reads fluently with excellent phrasing and expression. She displays great accuracy allowing her to easily maintain comprehension. When writing, Genevieve produces creative texts that use her knowledge of text structure and grammar to guide the reader. She effectively uses figurative language and organises her ideas using paragraphs. Genevieve regularly edits her writing to improve

Josh is able to communicate his ideas and experiences from literacy in his writing independently. He is able to sound out some high frequency words and spell them correctly in his writing. His next step is to add details to his illustrations to help represent his ideas. Josh is able to set and work towards learning goals, this is evident in his reading and writing. He takes feedback in a positive way and uses it to improve his writing. Josh is encouraged to only use capital letters when required and lower case letters in inside his sentences. He would benefit from practicing his lower case letters and looking at his nameplate as a visual reminder. Josh has strong comprehension skills and is encouraged to continue to add expression

The Literacy course will help you improve your reading and writing skills, as well as, help you to better understand different forms of text. Which will help you succeed through many areas of your life. Your communication skills within the community will improve, better job opportunities will be available to you, and your relationship with your family will also benefit from you having a higher level of literacy. I believe literacy is a very important part of a happy and successful life.

On Thursday, June 25, 2015, I met with my host teacher, Ms. Madison and Joseph’s mother about getting permission to use Joseph to conduct my assessments on. During this time, I asked her a series of questions regarding Joseph’s development. First, I asked her how she saw his literacy and language development. She said, “I feel that he is doing what children his age should be doing.” I then asked her if he likes to read, write, and contribute to conversations? She replied that he does not like to read; however, he likes to try and write when they are at restaurants waiting on their food and that he is always talking. I then asked her if someone at home reads to him frequently. She explained that she is a single parent and that she has

The word literacy is not easily defined. Although most commonly explained as the ability to read and write it takes on many dimensions. Just to say that it is the ability to read has so many paths according to Szwed. The passage brings to point that people have different ways of reading depending on the circumstance that they find themselves in at the present time. For example as used in the passage “ Or a student who shows little aptitude for reading may read Jaws in study hall” this shows how the circumstance can affect both the eagerness to read and the ability to read. Maybe a student is not confident enough to read aloud but can read novels alone and comprehend them fully, or maybe just that the child has no interest in the article or

Gabriele Rico believes natural writing has two main fundamental acts, wondering and storying. Wondering occurs because a child is brought into a new environment and is trying to make sense of the world around them. All children at this stage begin to create their own reality based on what they wonder and realize around them. Storying takes place when children make mental connections and realize there is a relationship among people, things, feelings, and events. Children can express themselves through storying; they expand their views of the world by wondering and storying. At the age of two to four, children start to discover the lines on the page of a book are more than just squiggly lines. They start to identify letters, combine to words,

In our fairytale unit, Isaac was able to create a fractured fairytale that included all elements such as beginning, middle and end. He demonstrates an ability to attend to conventions such as adding dialog, printing neatly on the lines with spaces, adding punctuation and he is beginning to edit his own work. Isaac has developed confidence in his writing and as a result likes to share his work with others. Isaac treats others with respect and compassion by actively listening to others when presenting and provides positive feedback. Isaac reads in primarily larger phrases with a smooth and expressive tone. He is able to sound out unfamiliar words and use the strategies he has learned like chunking. Isaac reads all the information and asks questions to confirm meaning. He also makes connections to his prior knowledge. For example, when reading a book about the monarch butterfly he said, “In kindergarten my class had a cage full of caterpillars and hey turned into butterflies. I saw the

Literacy is constantly used in our lives everyday, but are people giving it as much credit as it actually deserves? Literacy gives people an easier education, improves society, and allows people to maintain a healthy state of mind, these reasons are why literacy is very important in our society. Everybody knows that literacy is the base of education, as stated in an article, Regardless of their family background, children who arrive to kindergarten ready to learn to read “are generally more successful in grade school” and “less likely to drop out of high school” than their peers who are not equipped with pre-reading fundamentals by age five” (Lahey). Literacy is essential to getting a good education as stated before, literacy causes kids to be “generally more successful in grade school,” but literacy also gives people the skills to understand information and certain concept that are given to people getting an education, as said by Angie Stevens.

Texting is one of the fastest growing containers of communication. According to Cellular Online, in only the first three months of 2004, 135 billion text messages were sent. The proof is in the numbers alone. With the explosion of texting, society is forced to keep up with the massive amount of changes in communication. Not only is texting affecting children's knowledge, but also texting brought the development of virtually a new language, textisms. Textisms are the intentional misspelling of words, any use of a shortened word, or acronyms in text messages. Textisms significantly differ from standard English language. Some researchers believe that textisms are detrimental, but other researchers disagree and

Literacy is more or less something that can allow an economy to thrive. Literacy, based upon what is known with economy, is an underlying factor driving most of us to become purer with our knowledge. I believe, the importance of literacy goes far beyond just knowing what letters put together can make. But, understanding that with each letter, there is a movement guiding the readers to portray an image in their minds. These are the kinds of narrative details that help writers and readers find connection within the situations. On to the other hand, ask third world countries, the lack of such information can create a chain of catastrophic chain of unfortunate events. Examples such as low income rates, government corruption, and increased crime rates. All of these things keeping and denying cultures from truly becoming great, simply due to the fact that the language is not intellectually transcribed. The simple things that is done every day require literacy. Understandably so, the level at which your individual literacy rate is at with time and age should increase gradually. At least this is the theory. Yet, in the geography books being given to the high school students, variation gaps with countries will astound you. Literacy. Traditional and modern terms to some, are almost completely different. Traditionally, the term is meant to be understood as the ability to read and write. As time have progressed some would say the modern term would include the ability to use language,

I sealed my fate for literacy in the ninth grade. Sitting in regular level English, I was about to determine my level for sophomore year. At the time, I didn’t think I was particularly skilled in writing, and I wasn’t a big reader, so it was hard to make the decision. In that moment, I still precisely remember my teacher asking me “Do you want to go into honors English next year? I can see all your other classes are honors.” I responded with “I‘ll think about it.” and I went home to get my parents opinion the same day. At first, I wanted to take honors, but for some peculiar reason I thought the workload would be to much to handle. Leaning towards attending regular level, my parents weren’t decisive enough for me. They gave the generic “Do what you want.” response, and hearing that didn’t reassure me in the slightest. In the end, I took the lower level, and it became one of my worst decisions yet.

When I was in school there were no terms or labels like at risk, inclusion or SPEC classes, I was simply labeled a problem child who didn’t apply herself. While I was diagnosed with ADHD in first grade, it was assumed I had grown out of it by fourth grade and was expected to behave like all the other children. Reading was my only way to stay out of trouble, if your nose was in a book the teacher left you alone, and I could take a book anywhere, the bus, chapel, and trips and then could escape to anyplace I wanted. I am so thankful that I learned this skill at an early age, as it helped me cope later on with my studies, so Ruddell’s book about how important literacy is for young minds was something that interests me greatly. The points that drew my attention in the final chapter was the discussions on opening doors, how important it is to know what the students are reading, how important writing is as, and how to assess their progress. All these points for me are an important recipe for teaching literacy.

I believe that achieving success in teaching very different aspects of life may still combine similar processes. My life in high school was very similar to the lives of many other students in that it revolved around two things: sports and school. My sport of choice was tennis and my favorite academic area was English. Unexpectedly, I found many similarities led to a successful performance in both areas. My understanding of the need for a good program to follow and a lot of practice with it led to success in both tennis and my academic performance (especially English). Upon becoming a recognized player in my area, I decided to take the skill that I knew better than any other and utilize it as a