Early Lit mid term Flashcards
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What can you do to encourage and support use of first language at home?
Rapport with parents, encourage and support first language, focus on oral language development, provide things from culture in classroom, provide language and literacy take home activities.
what behaviors do you see toddlers display that demonstrates they are noticing environmental print?
Questions, grabbing things with words, painting
acknowledge home and community language literacy. how do you know this?
using their names as labels, props with print, send home a newsletter, notes to parents
Assist parents in providing literacy materials at home. how do you do this?
Take home book bags with picture books, paper, felt tip markers, personalized caption books.
Signs of emergent literacy in preschoolers
Awareness of sound patterns and individual sounds in words, sound with letters, features of a letter and different of two letters, narratives, “book language”, “how to read” “book related concepts.” “how to write.”
examples of invented spelling
Prephonemic, early phonemic, letter name, phonetic spelling/transitional
examples of prephonemic
Child spelling- sptso, ofacyehthi
Words read as by child- not read, I was walking down to the park
Early phonemic
child’s spelling- SW, ROB
Words read as by child- Snow White, Rowboat
Letter name
Child’s spelling-LADE
Words as read by child- Lady
Phonetic spelling/ transitional
Child’s spelling- spas, RABT, THEED
Words as read by child- space, rabbit, the end
Spelling stages
prephonemic, early phonemic, letter name, phonetic spelling/ transitional.
Invented spelling
children experiment with representing specific speech sounds by using the alphabet
cultural differences in narratives
some cultures only allow true stories, teachers should value them, second language learners may have narratives that reflect different experiences and expectations but also development of second language.
4 developmentally appropriate guidelines for literacy
provide a developmentally appropriate curriculum, utilize staff and volunteer resources to increase support for children’s literacy interactions, provide opportunities for multiple, frequent literacy related experiences, engage in responsive and reflective teaching
valued activities to preschool children in literacy development
informal conversations, procedural activities, art/writing center, library center, creative drama center, concept centers, rhymes, finger plays, and action songs, interactive story book sharing, storytelling, story reenactments, story diction.
informal conversations- relationship to literacy
develops communication skills in listening, vocabulary, and grammar
informal conversations- guidelines
during arrival or departure, outside time, snack time, independent acting time
procedural activities- relationship to literacy
enhance children’s awareness of how oral and written language are used to communicate
procedural activities- guidelines
attendance taking routine, environmental print, learning centers
art/writing center - Relationship to literacy
use of visual symbols that contribute to their later abilities to communicate through writing and illustration
library center- relationship to literacy
influence motivation for reading
creative drama center- relationship to literacy
helps speech, gestures, and symbolic representations
concept centers- relationship to literacy
developing and refining their concepts and vocabulary
rhymes, finger plays, and action songs- relationship to literacy
understand meaning of the words they are saying