Emergent Writing and Reading

1. Emergent Writing and Reading The Development of Literacy Chapter 11

2. Emergent literacy process of developing awareness about reading and writing before young children can read or write

3. Awareness and ExplorationChildren can: • Enjoy listening to and discussing books • Understand that print carries a message • Engage in reading and writing attempts • Identify labels and signs in the environment • Participate in rhyming games • Identify some letters and make some letter-sound matches • Use known letters to represent written language

4. Awareness and ExplorationTeachers can: • Share books with children • Talk about letters by name and sounds • Establish a literacy-rich environment • Reread favorite stories • Engage children in language games • Promote literacy-related play activities • Encourage children to experiment with writing

5. Emergent Writing Checklist • Pretends to write with pictures and scribbles • Makes horizontal lines of writing scribbles • Includes letter-like forms in writing • Makes some letters, prints name or initial

6. journals/books written by children in class language experience stories magazines, newspapers recorded stories calendars rebus charts and graphs alphabet charts vocabulary words pictures from around the world labels on supplies lists children’s names children’s writing and drawings pencils, pens, chalk, crayons, markers The WritingCenter

7. typewriter Computer paper of various sizes, colors, textures; lined and unlined, drawing paper, construction paper and scraps cardboard, posterboard stationery note pads index cards envelopes graph paper post-its order forms business forms chalkboards, dry erase boards carbon paper paints The Writing Center

8. pencil sharpener rulers tape glue scissors stapler stickers date stamp and pad paper clips hole punch brads maps and globes pictionaries & dictionaries folders notebooks Stencils magnetic letters & numbers The WritingCenter

9. Activities to Promote Writing • Writing Center • Fill Room with Environmental Print • Use Sand or Salt Trays • Be a Writing Model • Encourage Children to Write Messages • Put Up Personal Mailboxes • Take a Field Trip to the Post Office • Have a Class Mailbox • Post Alphabet Letters • Have Children Sign up for Turns • Use Computer Alphabet Games • Journals

10. Handwriting Without Tears • http://www.hwtears.com/

11. Emergent Reading Checklist • Holds book right-side up; turns pages right to left • Pretends to read using pictures to tell story • Retells stories from books with increasing accuracy • Shows awareness that print in books tells the story

12. Phonics emphasizes sound-symbol relationship phonemes - smallest unit of speech phonological awareness - awareness of speech sounds, such as rhyming workds Whole Language introduces literacy by building on what children already know about oral language, reading and writing highlights meaningful language related to child’s experiences Literacy Approaches

13. DAP Literacy Environment • Talk to children, use standard language, not baby talk • Reinforce child’s native language • Speak clearly and not too fast or soft • Encourage children to talk to you • Listen, make eye-contact • Use children’s names frequently • Allow time • Talk about letters by name and sound • Establish a literacy-rich environment

14. DAP Literacy Environment • Play music • Offer toys that make noise • Sing songs • Play finger plays • Tell stories with props • Read stories aloud • Listen to sounds in environment • Offer pressure-free experimentation • Provide daily opportunities for children to write

15. Encourage Family Support • Read aloud regularly • Expose children to vocabulary of books • Read print in environment • Model reading • Talk to your child • Sing • Encourage children to write and draw • Display children’s work • Write notes to your child

16. WHAT should I Read Aloud? • Picture Books • Big Books • Fables • Folk Tales • Biographies • Fiction • Nonfiction • Fantasy • Mysteries • Poetry • Classics