Early Literacy Environments

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Dr. Linda HolcombWalden University

Getting to Know Emergent and Beginning Literacy Learners

"Successful student readers must be motivated, of positive attitude, of good self-concept, and capable of making accurate attributions for their performances" (Afflerbach, 2007, p. 155).• Effective Literacy Teachers know their students:

Interest• Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS)

Instructional needs• Oral Language vocabulary development• Concepts of print• Phonological & phonemic awareness• Letter naming, sight word and phonics knowledge• Listening comprehension

Text Selection“Content rich instruction is important at all grade levels, and there are many different types of text that support it” (Newman & Roskos, 2012).

• Predictable books Rhyming and repetitive word patterns

• Rhyming books Distinctive sounds

• Introduce storybooks Provide information about a topic in a story format

• Informational books Capture the interest and desire to learn

Text Selection• Text complexity considerations

Readability• Sentence length• Number of syllables• Concept density

Text length Text structure

• informational • descriptive • cause/effect • problem/solution• compare/contrast• poetic

Size of print Visual supports(Laureate Education, 2014a)

Emergent Literacy LearnersEarly Reading Developmental Process

Word Recognition• Concepts of Print

• Letter knowledge

• Phonological/Phonics awareness

• Fluent Reading

Comprehension Process• Oral Language/vocabulary

development• Comprehension strategies to

listen to text

• Reading vocabulary

• Comprehension Processing

Beginning Literacy LearnersA rich oral language base to develop phonemic awareness and access for the kind of language needed to access text.• 5 foundations of beginning literacy instruction

Phonemic awareness• the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-

phonemes--in spoken words. Alphabetic principal

• the understanding that words are made up of letters and letters represent sounds.

Fluency•  the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.

Vocabulary• the command of language.

Comprehension• the ability to read text, process it and understand its meaning.

Emergent Literacy Lesson• Systematic and Explicit Instruction

Phonological Awareness• manipulate sounds • Words• Syllables• Rhyming elements in syllables• Alliterations

– Breaking words into smaller parts• Identifying sounds in words • Blending sounds • Segmentation of sounds

Phonological awareness is the basis for reading. Children learn to recognize patterns among words and use this knowledge to read and build words.

Beginning Literacy Lesson• The primary objective in reading development with beginning

literacy learners is phonics awareness. Decoding Vocabulary instruction

• Concept sort• Picture sorts

Develop automatic sight words Higher level thinking

• close reads Fluency

• ability to read at a natural pace Comprehension

• the key to reading writing

References• Afflerbach, P. (2012). Understanding and using reading assessments:

K–12 (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014a). Analyzing and selecting text

[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014c). The beginning reader [Video

file]. Baltimore, MD: author.• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014k). Getting to know your students

[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.• Neuman, S. B., & Roskos, K. (2012). Helping children become more

knowledgeable through text. Reading Teacher, 66(3), 207–210.• Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R, D. (2015). Teaching children to read: The

teacher makes the difference (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.• Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R. B. (2016). Strategies for reading

assessment and instruction: Helping every child succeed (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

• Stages of Reading Development. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://Readingrockets.org.

• University of Houston, College of Education. (2013). Educational uses of digital storytelling. Retrieved from http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.cfm

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