Young Learner Literacy

1. Young Learner Literacy • Today’s class • Review • Reading homework • Emergent to fluent readers • Text connections • Phonics books (examples) Email: edpovey@hotmail.co.uk Website: edwardtesol.com (password: English)

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3. This week we will take a class photo to help me to remember your names!

4. Concepts of print include: • Reading from left to right. • Reading from top to bottom. • The fact that letters and words convey a message. • Print is what we read. • The "return sweep", to move from one line to the next. • Illustrations in a book correspond to the print. • Every book as a front, back, and an author. • … and more What is print? Print is text.

5. Week 2 reading homework a. What are some first language literacy skills? - Broader and narrower idea? b. What are some reasons that many children struggle to learn to read in their first language? What does Vygotsky mean by written language as ‘second order’ meaning representation? c. What are some factors affecting learning to read English as a foreign language? d. Can you make some personal connections to learning English as a foreign language? How was your experience as an EFL student?

7. Reading Development Beginning readers Emergent readers Fluent readers

8. Matching activity Beginning readers Emergent readers Fluent readers

9. Answers • What can emergent readers do? • Notice environmental print • Show interest in books • Pretend to read • Identify some letter names • Recognize 5-20 high frequency words • Uses picture cues to retell story • Likes to listen to books with patterns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA7Z2YAebck

10. Answers • What can beginning readers do? • Identify letters names + sounds • Match spoken words with written words • Recognize 20-100 high frequency words • Use beginning, middle and ending sounds to decode words • Read slowly, word by word • Point to words when reading • Make text-to-world connections

11. Answers • What can fluent readers do? • Identify most words automatically • Read with expression • Reading rate of 100 words per minute or more • Prefer to read silently • Make inferences • Use knowledge of text structure and genre to aid comprehension • Identify unfamiliar words using the cueing system

12. Emergent readers • the first stage in a child’s growth toward literacy • relates to child’s first experiences with print and continues through early years of formal schooling • period of acquiring the specific skills and abilities for reading

14. How can we help emergent readers? Read aloud with big books Use environmental print - What English signs do we see in Korea? Think of shops and brands, too. Use word walls

15. How can we help emergent readers? Use literacy materials with play Talk about the book before you read it, for example author and cover Have children manipulate sounds using phonemic awareness activities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EUFg5Lm7u4

16. How can we help beginning readers? Read leveled (graded) reading books Use choral reading Teach phonics Model and practice reading strategies Teach story structure

17. How can we help beginning readers?

20. How can we help fluent readers? • Have children participate in literature circles. • Have children participate in reading workshop. • Teach about genres and literary devices. • Involve children in author studies. • Respond to literature through talk and writing.

21. 5 Stages of the Reading Process • Marie Clay (1991) and Fountas and Pinnell (2001) have noted five main stages of literacy development. over 9 years old 5-7 years old 5-7 years old 6-9 years old 2-7 years old

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23. Read the Week 3 text and answer the questions. You answers are for class discussion, so notes are fine. Week 3 Reading Questions Explain the difference between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness in your own words. What is segmenting? What is blending? Choose one of the provided activities, in the reading, to share with the class 1. Why you think it’s a good activity for young learners, 2. What area is it addressing, 3. How it will help them with learning to read, and 4. How you would use it as a teacher. (To be turned in) Reflection: How did you feel about these activities? Do you feel these are ideas you will use and feel comfortable applying as a teacher in an elementary classroom?