Transcript Language and Literacy - Marion County, Oregon

Debbie King
Willamette Education Service District
Today’s Agenda
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What is early literacy?
What early literacy is not
Language and literacy
Stages of early literacy and language
Developmental activities for literacy
Practice!
What is early literacy
 Your child’s early experiences with books and language
lay the foundation for success in learning to read.
 Children prepare to read long before they enter school.
 Early literacy is a baby who chews on a book.
 Early literacy is a toddler who wants his favorite book
over and over.
 Early literacy is a preschooler who “reads” the story to
you from memory.
•There are many pathways to literacy. Early experiences can be
initiated by the child or by other people.
•It can be playful or work like.
•May take place in the home, the neighborhood, preschool, or
daycare center.
•Early literacy experiences can include pretending to write and read
stories, writing a thank-you note to grandma, or listening to a story.
The most important thing that YOU can do to
foster early literacy is to provide an atmosphere
that is:
•Fun
•Verbal
•Stimulating
You
Are
The
Key
To a child’s
success
In learning to
read
What Early Literacy is Not
 It is not “formal teaching of reading” to younger
children.
 Formal instruction that pushes infants and toddlers to
read is not developmentally appropriate.
How early literacy relates to language
development
Learning to read is built on a foundation of language
skills that children start learning at birth.
 Understanding what is said
 Imitating what they hear
 Using more and more words as they develop
 Using their language to express their thoughts
 Using their language to get their needs and wants met
 Connecting letter sounds to words
Statistics
 According to a 2006 kindergarten teacher survey by
ODE, 19.4 % of children enrolled in Multnomah
County were “not ready to succeed” because they
lacked the necessary language and pre-reading skills.
Nationally, this rises to 35%.
 There is a 90% probability that a child who is a poor
reader in the first grade will be a poor reader in the 4th
grade.
Statistics cont’d
 The nation’s report card of 2003, stated that 40% of 4th
graders and 31% of 8th graders are below the basic
skills level.
 Children develop much of their capacity for learning
in the first 3 years of life, when their brain grows to
90% of the eventual adult weight.
 The prevalence and stability of preschool problems of
inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity suggests a
number of links to a lack early literacy .
Statistics cont’d
 Almost 3 million school age children have some form
of learning disability and receive special education in
school.
 Children with developmental speech/language
impairments are at a higher rate for reading disability
that typical peers with no history of speech/language
impairment.
Stages of Development
Literacy Rich
Experiences
Literacy Skills
Child’s
Interest
Practice
5 Components of Emergent Language
Symbolic Development / Print Motivation
A child’s interest in and enjoyment of books.
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2. Spoken Language / Vocabulary
Using language to communicate ideas, feelings, and to
ask questions in order to solve problems. Learning the
names of things.
Components cont’d
3. Listening and Understanding Language / Narrative
Skills
Understanding and telling stories, describing things that
are important is the child’s life. This helps them to
understand what they are learning to read.
4. Knowledge and Awareness of Print and Books /
Written Language
The child is learning that writing has basic rules.
Learning the alphabet letters names.
Components cont’d
5.Sounds of Language / Phonological Awareness
The ability to hear and manipulate the smaller sounds
in words. This includes rhymes, chunking sounds of
words, putting two chunks of sounds together to make a
word.
What Children Like in Books
Birth-2
 Board books with photos of babies
 Books with clear familiar items in the baby’s world
 Books with texture
 Books with animals sounds
2 – 3 Years of Age
•Small books that fill into small hands and has thick pages.
•Books with simple rhymes.
•Books with familiar routines such as bathing and bedtime.
•Lift the flab books.
•Books that they can learn “by heart” because they have few
words.
4 – 5 Years of Age
•Books that tell stories.
•Books that make them laugh.
•Books they can “memorize”.
•Books about familiar real world: trucks, going to
school, dinosaurs.
•Counting books, alphabet books, vocabulary books.