Unit 1 & 2 Emergence of language and Foundations of Language and Literacy
A way to share, give and recieve information through sounds, gestures, and body language to communicate with others.
What is communication and how to identify ways young children communicate?
Children who are learning and developing in more than one language.
What is a dual language learner?
builds literacy skills; notice and remember details; promotes imagination and stimulates curiosity; Increased attention; opportunities to share thinking, experiences, ideas and feelings; build confidence to help tell a story; promotes excitement and positive feelings about reading
What is the benefits of interactive story reading?
Children know about reading and writing before they can read and write. Early literacy skills are crucial and necessary to build a foundation to read and write sucessfully.
What is Early (Emergent) Literacy?
Making connections & visualizing, determining importance, and reading comprehension.
What are the strategies for integrating art & literacy?
Language learning starts in the womb, Speech Milestones for babies, 0-8 yrs, and Receptive language development.
What are the stages of language development?
Use complete sentences and accurate vocabulary; fluent home language helps children to learn English; speaking their home language connects their family and community; home language transfers skills; good communications skills; learn through talking to family and friends; home language is best
How childcare educators can help children with 2 languages?
Find out what they know, prompt to share own experiences, encourage them to tell you something they want to find out, check comprehension, ask for predictions, confirm predictions, understand new vocabulary, connect learning to new ideas
How to facilitate conversations around books?
Book handling behaviors; looking & recognizing; picture & story comprehension; story-reading behaviors.
What are early literacy behaviors?
Art based picture books allow children to think about a story and encourage them to engage on a deeper level, responses to stories help to use their senses to make meaning what they heard, and lets them examine ideas and messages that have been present in the story and respond in a creative way.
How do we help children build a strong foundation in oral language?
Brain development, language, knowledge, love of reading, bonding, literacy skills
What is the importance of story reading?
Children grow up to be readers; reading happens anywhere at anytime; put books in all areas of play, even outside; children who asks questions and make comments are connecting with the story in a some way; our focus is getting children to fall in love with books and stories.
What is the importance of reading to & sharing stories with children?
Motivation to read, sounds awareness, print awareness, book awareness, alphabet knowledge and oral language skills.
What are the early literacy skills?
Oral language provides foundation for learning to read and write, music helps to build and strengthen listening and attention skills, songs introduce new vocabulary and concepts and children learn rhyming pattern and sound patterns.
What is the connection between music and literacy?
Semantics, Syntax, Phonology
What are the 3 rule systems of language children need to learn?
Literacy begins at home; Literacy and Language links; Tips for sharing books; An ABC for parents
What are the four Family Literacy Brochures found in Moodle?
Conceptual framework of practice for early literacy education. It has strands of literacy and what educators provide to include those strands in the literacy rich environments.
What is ORIM Framework?
Awareness and exploration; emergent reader; early reader; transitional reader; Fluent reader
What are the stages of emergent literacy?
Early years are critical period for the brain's musical centre to develop, early exposure to both music and speaking, provide appropriate experiences and interactions with music and words, and creates connections between singing and reading through song storybooks.
What is music, song and brain research?
Child-directed speech, self-talk, parallel talk
What are some strategies educators can use to foster a "Language rich environment"?
Risk factors that can be present in diverse family contexts such as avoiding stereotypes, labelling and combating discrimination and racism. Build self-awareness, be informed, being open to possibilities, include everyone, being ready to talk, emphasizing value of difference, books to prompt discussions.
How can family socio/demographics impact literacy?
Provides children with opportunities to explore and use literacy in meaningful ways; spaces thoughtfully and intentionally organized for experiences and materials to support and encourage children to engage in literacy experiences; environments and experiences allow children to play individually or to communicate and collaborate with others.
What is Literacy Rich Environment and Space?
Scribbling, mock handwriting, mock letters, conventional letters, invented spelling, approximated (phonetic) spelling, and conventional spelling.
What are the seven stages of children's writing development?
Phoneme awareness, pitch awareness, discrimination of auditory elements, discrimination of pitches and key awareness, speech signals, auditory signals, letters, words, sentences, notes, visual focus, rhyme and rhythm.
What is the value of integrating music, movement, & literacy experiences?