module 8 Flashcards
(6 cards)
benefits of reading to children (7)
-supports cognitive development (knowledge on the workd, architecture of baby brain)
-improves language skills (language acquisition, communication skills, social skills, literacy skills, different langauge than in daily life)
-prepares for academic success ( more prepared to read, graduate)
-develops a special bond with child (intimacy, well-being, attention, reassurance, familiar voices)
- increases concentration and discipline (longer attention span, better memory)
- improves imagination and creativity (explore beyong their own experiences)
- cultivates lifelong love of reading (lifelong learning)
4 key aresas of emergent literacy (kadaravek and justice 2004)
1- phonological awareness (sound structure at level of words, syllables, onset-rimes, phonemes)
2- print concepts (how print and books are organized, how letters make up workds, invented spelling= emergent writing skills )
3- alphabet knowledge (letter names and features)
4- literate language ( use of language in decontextualized discourse)
print concepts and book handling (7 ways)
1- show front of book
2- show title
3- what does title say
4- state author and illustrator and what they do
5- which way to read (L-R)
6- which page first ( L-R)
7- which lines (to-bottom)
literate language (4 examples)
- syntactic and semantic features of written text
- mental state verbs
- decontexturalized language (ex: inferences, predictions)
- narrative awareness
levels of story talk
literate talk is contextualized:
1- focuses on events in the story or in picture
2- focusees on relationships between two objects int he story of in the picture
literate talk is decontextualized:
3- focuses on relationships between the story and the reader
4- focuses on mental state verbs and predictions perspective taking, inferences, pretending
story reenactiment is a
good way to build narrative ability and literate language
