‘Socio-Cultural’ Approaches to Language, Literacy and Learning

In chapter five, by Cris Tovani, “Why Am I Reading This” explains how educators need to establish a clear reading instructional plan. In order to accomplish understanding students need to concentrate on main ideas from the readings. Tovani explains that it is vital for teachers to model how students should hold their thinking or slow down their reading. Throughout the chapters she gives examples as question strategies, highlighting text, or summarizing key points. As this will benefit students in their reading assignment. Tovani also explains throughout the chapter that teachers should model thinking aloud. This strategy will benefit students on how to negotiate difficult text.

Creating engaging literacy lesson plans takes a combination of effective instruction and material interesting to students. Knowing your students is essential in the planning and implementing of any lesson to ensure it reaches all students .Reading Comprehension: What Every Teacher Needs to Know, states” Influential teachers are highly valued participants in the reading process. They know the importance of every student comprehending successfully.”(McLaughlin,2012 p. 433). Ensuring all students have the opportunity to learn and comprehend the information presented in a lesson is important to lesson creation.

Language is essential to every interaction and aspect in human’s everyday lives. Imagine a world without language, everyone will be mute and doesn’t have any connection with each other. Being able to communicate through language with each other forms bonds and that’s what make human different from any animal species. And language gives us a unique and diverse characters to each of us.

Jones tells me that she has always loved Literature and wants to share that love with her students. She says that she has developed her literacy instruction style from trial and error. She says that the most important thing is to know your students. She says that every class is different. They have different likes, different behavior styles, and different learning capabilities. What works well with one class may not be the best option for another class. She says that while one class may need the story read to them as they follow along, her last class can read by themselves and still develop the same skills as the other.

Literacy, literacies and multiliteracies bears various meanings to different people. Some believe that literacy is developed by cultures, while others believe that literacy and cultures developed an individual. There are single and multiple definitions of literacy, literacies and multi-literacies. Based on research, literacy is very important and continues to be developed through our rapidly changing world. Throughout this essay, we will focus on views of literacy, literacies, and multiliteracies and how their different meanings affect our approach to teaching literacy.

Language is an extensively complex topic. To effectively engage in a variety of social contexts one must be well versed in both the concept of 'Discourse' (so capitalised because of James Gee's discrimination between 'discourse' as "connected stretches of language that makes sense" and 'Discourse,' as a concept made up of various discourses as described by David Green, 2006, pp. 3 ), and the basic principles and 'codes' (Bernstein, 1960, as cited by Green, 2006) of the Discourse appropriate to each situation one encounters. A deficient working knowledge of the situational discourse leaves you vulnerable as what Green continues on to describe as an 'outsider' and therefore subject to being classified and treated as inferior. It is important to avoid a reflectively tyrannical system occurring within the classroom setting, as it leads to devaluing of individual children's culture and home Discourse through the process of placing them in direct conflict with the institutional school Discourse (Gee, 1990, Michaels 1981, as cited by Green, 2006).

The child then can develop a sense of initiative and feel secure in the way they can lead others and make decisions.

In the book Exploring Language & Literacy chapter Preschool talks about diverse school, a diverse school is where there is different backgrounds and cultures for an example mexican, black, asian etc. In the book it says “The teachers were interested in learning how to better meet the needs of all the learners.” I think what the teachers do is admiring, to go out of there way to learn about the students cultures and backgrounds to better understand them. It so impressive, by doing this they have a better connection with the children. In their social skills they improve in indicating their needs and understanding else's emotions.

Without language, we could not be able to go about our daily lives, which includes school, work, an even something as simple as going to the store. Language as a form of communication that can be viewed as taken for granted by humans and the idea of not having the use of language is unheard of. What separates human beings from the rest of the world such as animals,

There are three important frameworks teachers should think about when developing lesson plans. The first one is literacy lesson format. This format has three different steps, which include: introducing the text, reading and responding to the text and extending the text. When introducing the text the student previous knowledge should be activated about the subject and the students should develop their own purpose for reading the text. When responding to the text students should do this over the course of the reading. By the end they should be able to go back and summarize what they read while answering any questions they may have acquired while reading. Finally the students should extend the text by making personal connections with the text

Without language, the world would not exist. Language is vital to survival. From a mating call to calling someone on the phone, language is used all the time. As shown through language, humans strive for the ever changing nature of the world.

Language has different meanings and is used to describe something physically presented in the world. It is distinguished among terms such as oral language, written language, and language itself. Oral language is the primary form of language and written language comes second. An individual’s social class can influence the way language is written and spoken. Language is ideological, where an individual’s view of the world can be changed. Multi-literacies can influence the way texts are viewed and the child's access to it can shape their journey with language. Educators guidance on their students can affect the child's skills and learning of language. Language has its many purposes and forms in which are influenced by culture and religions.

We are all influenced by the places we have lived and the environments i.e. living conditions and areas. Asking a variety of questions that can help determine the overall picture of a child and their family background is very important. Example: Child’s country of birth, where they grew up, how long they’ve lived in Australia for, what languages they speak? Our understanding of the children and families in our service is crucial, for example in enabling us to share each child’s language journey, rather than presuming that generic language and literacy experiences are appropriate for all children. When we seek to understand children and their families and communities, we moving well beyond stereotypes and unwise assumptions about people. Strong

People can think without language because thinking is not just conducted by language. There are limits in language, but thoughts are limitless. Language can be described as medium of which thoughts are directed but to a particular extent, which is decided by the person and not by the language.

When children are growing up, it is common to have them participate in activities that