Emergent Literacy

Emergent LiteracyLesson 3

What is Emergent Literacy?• Emergent = Early

• Could not actually read or write in the conventional sense

• Exposure to reading and writing

• Language and literacy skills begin at birth

What Are the Important Components of Emergent Literacy?

According to the National Early Panel (NELP) (2009), the important skills in early literacy are the following: 1. Alphabet Knowledge

2. Phonological Awareness and Memory3. Rapid automatized naming of letter

and object4. Writing letters

What Should Parents Do To Encourage Their Children’s Emergent Literacy

Skills? talk to their child and name objects, people, and events in the everyday environment.

Repeat their child’s strings of sounds (e.g “dadadada, bababa”) and add to them.

talk to their child during daily routine activities such as bath or mealtime and respond to his/her questions.

What Should Parents Do To Encourage Their Children’s Emergent Literacy

Skills? (cont.) draw their child’s attention to print in everyday setting.

introduce new vocabulary words during holidays and special activities.

engage their child in singing, rhyming games, and nursery rhymes.

read pictures and story books that focus on sounds, rhymes, and alliteration.

What Should Parents Do To Encourage Their Children’s Emergent Literacy

Skills? (cont.) reread their child’s favorite books.

focus their child’s attention on books by pointing to words and pictures as they read.

provide a variety of materials to encourage drawing and scribbling.

encourage the child to describe or tell story about his/her drawing and write down the word.

What Can Teachers Do to Support Early LiteracyNational Early Literacy Panel (2009) suggests

the following:

• Provide activities that allow for learning of letters names and sounds.

• Create opportunities for students to experiments with the sounds of the languages.

What Can Teachers Do to Support Early Literacy

(cont.) • Give activities that will make them remember specific words.• Expose children to several instances that can make them practice talking.• Maximize opportunities to teach and discuss new words.• Engage them in situations that will make them understand the role and value of print.

Agree or Disagree? Why?

Children start to learn language from the day they are born.

Agree or Disagree? Why?

As they grow and develop, so do their speech and language skills.

Agree or Disagree? Why?

They learn to understand and use language to express their thoughts, ideas, and feelings to communicate with others.

Children who enter school with weaker verbal abilities are much more likely to experience difficulties in learning literacy skills than those who do not.

Agree or Disagree? Why?

Your 3 year old son/daughter or student has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). These are kids having problems concentrating and paying attention. How will you keep the attention of the child?

Application

PowerPoint Presentation of: Banzon, Lea Sandra F. BPE – SPE 3rd yr

Holy Cross Of Davao College

Reference:Developmental Reading 1

Alejandro Sapitan BernardoFirst Edition