Jami's Post-Participation Week 4

Because I left class early due to being sick; I did not participate in the reading of the poems-so I am not able to write about that.

Emergent literacy begins at birth for all children and continues throughout their preschool years. Children are constantly interacting with print: books, papers, magazines, signs, etc. everyday of their lives. This helps them to learn and understand that they need to use language to express their ideas, thoughts and feelings. It helps chidlren early on in their development of speech and language and most importantly literacy. Teachers can prepare an environment to support literacy development by putting name tags on things in the classroom. They can learn the d-o-o-r spells door and they physically see what a door is. This helps them to relate words to actual objects that they come in contact with everyday. This is especially important for ELL’s. They are new to the English language and do not understand what words go with certain objects. It is also important to talk things through. When you are holding an item in your hand you should repeat what it is a couple of times and have the students repeat the words with you. This helps them again to visualize what a compass is. They hear and see it.As noted in the readings picture sequencing is important. It is an activity in which students can put pictures in order to tell a story. This again helps students to see the story, while not having to put specific words with it. There are many things that we as teachrs can do to promote emergent literacy of young children. Repitation of words, sticky notes with words or phrases, signs, posters, etc..