Transcript Components of Literacy

Components of Literacy
EDU 280
Fall 2015
Creative Curriculum’s
Literacy Components
• Literacy, Chapter 1
Literacy Vol. 3, Chapter 17
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7 Components of Literacy
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Literacy as a source of enjoyment
Vocabulary and language
Phonological awareness
Knowledge of print
Letters and words
Comprehension
Books and other texts
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Literacy as a source of enjoyment
• Goal for preschool
emergent readers is to
introduce them to the
power and pleasure of
literacy.
– Role Models
– Attractive and Inviting
Library Area
– Literacy Linked with Play
– Choices
– Challenging yet Achievable
Experiences
Vocabulary and Language
• A system of words with rules for their use
• Two areas of language:
1. Receptive language
2. Expressive language
• Children move through predictable stages of
acquiring language but the pace is different
from child to child
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Four Kinds of Vocabulary
1. Listening vocabulary
2. Speaking vocabulary
3. Reading vocabulary
4. Writing vocabulary
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Four basic ways
children learn new words
1. Talking with peers and adults throughout the day, informally
and in guided conversations
2. Songs, rhymes, fingerplays
3. Hearing new words to describe what they experience first
hand
4. Listening to print read aloud and talking about new words
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Phonological Awareness
Adults will understand and use strategies that
include:
Listening
Rhyming
Alliteration
Sentences and words
Syllables
Onset & rime
Phoneme
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Why are phonological awareness skills so
important?
The ability to…
Will eventually help children to…
• Separate words into syllables
or beats
• Recognize and generate
rhymes
• Recognize and generate
words that start or end with
the same sound
• Blend words into sounds
• break down a word into parts to spell
or decode it.
• use known words to decode new
words. (e.g. Use catch for batch)
• learn to associate particular sounds
with particular letters.
• “sound out” words. /n/ /a/ /p/ is nap
• Segment words into sounds • spell words., for example- to hear 4
sounds in the word clap so they can
spell it.
Bennett-Armistead, V.S., Duke, N. K., Moses, A.M. (2005). Literacy and the Youngest Learner
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Knowledge of print
How print is organized and used to convey
meaning:
• Functions of print
• Forms of print
• Conventions of Print
Letters and words
• Involves more than
reciting ABC song or
recognizing individual
letters
• Alphabetic principle
– The idea that written
spellings correspond to
spoken words
Comprehension
• The process of making
meaning
• Goal of reading
instruction
• Connecting what you
read and hear with your
experience
• Background knowledge
– Provide many firsthand
experiences
Books and Other Texts
• Give children a variety of experiences with
many different types or genres of books
• Help them develop concepts about books
• Help them develop book handling skills
• Children also learn that there are other
materials to read besides books.