If I had a choice to choose any topic related to the
early childhood field for research it would be the impact of the early exposure
to literacy in education. The positive contribution for exposure to early
literacy would be children having a vocabulary of 20,000 words by the time they
enter preschool. The development of
literacy skills through early experiences is linked to children’s later success
in learning to read and language development. This would also motivated
children in their other studies.
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Ebony,
ReplyDeleteLiteracy is extremely important in early childhood education. I listen to my co-workers teach their PK4 student letter sounds. These kids are really motivated. This is one song that I know is building literacy by teaching letter sounds. It goes..."Who let the "a" out? /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/" in the tune of Who let the dogs out! It is not even Christmas and every student knows every letter sound. That's amazing! Building literacy is so important but making it fun for children is AWESOME!
I agree that literacy is the key to each child's success in school and in their futures. Early childhood is the prime time to ignite early literacy skills in phonological awareness such as rhyming, alliteration vocabulary, conversations and reading.Letter and sound recognition, and being able to write their names by the time they enter Kindergarten will give them the skills they need to be successful.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Post! Literacy is one of the best things to teach children at such a young age. I attended a training that was for tens weeks and it gave you ideas to do with children and how to engage literacy into your classroom to make it fun. The more fun you put into their learning the more they are going to want to learn. If the parents spend time with them when they are young they are going to learn a lot about literacy. My son has a set of twins and he spends a lot of time daily reading and doing learning activities with them. They are almost three and you can understand everything they say and are very smart for kids who have not been in daycare at all. I have children at my center who are the same age and I can not understand a word they say, which shocks me. I have a ltieracy CD that we play everyday and the children love it, and it teaches them to use rhyming words.
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ReplyDeleteThat is such a great topic! In fact I am also a believer in including early literacy in our program but have not been able to convince my co-teacher. I have done it in the past and it was amazing how much children can learn when the material are presented to them in a fun way and through stories, songs and fun activities. It also contributes to the cognitive development of the children.I would love to have access to more research about this topic to be able to back up my justifications. Thanks for your post.
Maryam
This is a topic that is dear to my heart as well. If children were given the opportunity to be exposed early on to literacy such as the type that you are explaining, our children would exceed our expectations that we currently have set for them. Kindergarten would be able to become even more advanced and in retrospect have all other grade levels have a higher and more complex academic system. I also agree that a program like this would not only motivate students, but would motivate them in all subject areas. Literacy is connected in all areas and sometimes educators forget this important fact.
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