Language and Literacy

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Language and Literacy

• Debbie King
• Willamette Education Service District

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Todays Agenda

• What is early literacy?
• What early literacy is not
• Language and literacy
• Stages of early literacy and language
• Developmental activities for literacy
• Practice!

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What is early literacy

• Your childs 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.

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• 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.

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• The most important thing that YOU can do to
  foster early literacy is to provide an atmosphere
  that is
• Fun
• Verbal
• Stimulating

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You Are The Key To a childs success In
learning to read
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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.

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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

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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.

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Statistics contd

• The nations 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 .

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Statistics contd

• 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.

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Stages of Development
Literacy Skills
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5 Components of Emergent Language

• Symbolic Development / Print Motivation
• A childs interest in and enjoyment of books.
• Spoken Language / Vocabulary
• Using language to communicate ideas, feelings,
  and to
• ask questions in order to solve problems.
  Learning the
• names of things.

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Components contd

• Listening and Understanding Language / Narrative
  Skills
• Understanding and telling stories, describing
  things that
• are important is the childs life. This helps
  them to
• understand what they are learning to read.
• Knowledge and Awareness of Print and Books /
  Written Language
• The child is learning that writing has basic
  rules.
• Learning the alphabet letters names.

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Components contd

• 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.

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What Children Like in Books

• Birth-2
• Board books with photos of babies
• Books with clear familiar items in the babys
  world
• Books with texture
• Books with animals sounds

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• 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.

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• 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.

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