The Dissertation Research Plan – Katherine Wood 1. Title How important is daily exposure to stories, poems and storytelling to children’s attainment in Literacy? 2. Rationale and Need What is your research focus? To look at how a class of children might improve their Literacy by being exposed to stories/storytelling on a daily basis and to see whether motivation and engagement in Literacy lessons can be increased.
2. Cite examples of how language awareness fosters school-age children’s language progress Verbal communication and language awareness is important and it plays a major role in developing their brains, connections and is crucial to development in young children. Daily reading, writing as well as language based plays improve their listening, speaking and language skills and also to help cope with issues such as social or emotional problems. 3. List some teaching practices that foster children’s achievement and some that undermine it.
Even when you are cuddling, playing, singing and talking with your child it all helps develop their brains. Young children find it easy to learn more than one language. As soon as they hear Welsh or any other language, they begin to pick up words and phrases. When they first start school they have the confidence to be able to perform in front of their classmates and teachers when it comes to singing. Children also have the amazing ability to be able to use their imagination and create their own stories to improve their own vocabulary by themselves or with friends and via play it allows them to begin the basic key steps into using literacy.
Pictures: Pictures are used alongside words to make communication more easier and understandable. In fact in my placement school, the reading scheme that is used starts the children off with ‘picture only’ books so the children are encouraged to talk about the pictures in the book and make their own story up and ask questions. Technology: Computer programmes (apps and games), interactive whiteboard, story tapes, cds are all ways of stimulating a child’s communication development. These days a lot of programmes are interactive and children can hear and respond to different applications made specially to help develop their
Literacy enables children and young people to express themselves creatively and productively. The majority of jobs and careers rely on an element of basic literacy (and numeracy) skills. Literacy is required in our everyday lives, to keep us safe by being able to read signs and follow instructions, read directions, reading newspapers, recipes, food labels, dealing with household finances. Literacy also enables us to progress with technology by being able use computers competently, surfing the internet and being able to read and write emails. As the heart of all learning lies the two key skills, literacy and numeracy.
Goodwillie’s book called, “Breaking Through” and Cameron’s book called, “the Artist’s Way,” focuses on two unique ways of teaching people about creative drama. There are many benefits of using creative drama in the classroom. Social awareness is increased through working with others, and pretending to “be” others. By doing this, a child can learn to understand himself and others. Also, Children learn cooperation, leadership, and communication skills.
Therefore, the purpose of assessment in support of planned curriculum is to help build on children’s strengths and weaknesses and aid in continued growth and learning. Furthermore, assessments illustrate that children have actually gained knowledge and skill from planned learning experiences. Even more, they exhibit the children’s ideas and attitudes towards their experiences. The teacher sent home picture cards for the children to continue working on rhyming at home and suggested several rhyming read aloud books for parents to read to their child at
Professor Kamerman ENG 301 28 June 2009 Accelerated Reader Program: Benefit or Detriment Reading is vital to literacy; knowing how to read is necessary and assures success in most fields of work. Reading helps with writing as well; a person who reads more than they play games or watch television will find it much easier to come up with the words necessary to express their thoughts and ideas in writing. Teaching children to read is the beginning to providing them with the tools they need for a successful life, academically and in their careers. The purpose here is to explore the Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance (AR/RR) program and discuss whether it truly is beneficial to students by providing them with the opportunity to progress
Wilkinson states that these assessment aspects arose from an ‘interaction between our perceptions of the written materials, teachers’ judgements and theoretical considerations’ (Wilkinson, A., Barnsley, G. P., Hanna, P., & Swan, M., 1980). It is here that Wilkinson’s model of children’s development in writing is particularly helpful as it shows that the child has developed their quality of thought in a cognitive capacity; the child shows an awareness of the world and an ability to describe, interpret, generalise and speculate on it (Winch et al, 2010). Other ways that teachers may help children to expand on their development are through the use of VELS speaking and listening standards. Where students are given opportunities to use spoken language appropriately in a variety of classroom contexts, ask and answer simple questions for information and clarification and to produce brief spoken texts that deal with familiar ideas and information (VCAA, 2006). The ability of a child to draw on cognitive thought and view the world around them relates to the Piagetian Theory of child development.
Making music involves more than the voice or fingers playing an instrument; a child learning about music has to tap into multiple skill sets, often simultaneously. For instance, people use their ears and eyes, as well as large and small muscles, says Kenneth Guilmartin, cofounder of Music Together, an early childhood music development program for infants through kindergarteners that involves parents or caregivers in the classes. “Music learning supports all learning. Not that Mozart makes you smarter, but it’s a very integrating, stimulating pastime or activity,” Guilmartin says. Language Development “When you look at children ages two to nine, one of the breakthroughs in that area is music’s benefit for language development, which is so important at that stage,” says Luehrisen.