Communicating in Professional Manners

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1.1 describe the current approaches to teaching and learning of literacy. LITERACY Literacy, is a skill of reading and writing. It is essential for quality of life. Individuals learn language and literacy through socio-cultural backgrounds where primary discourse is acquired. Through this culture, a child’s knowledge and way of thinking are formed according to cognition model. ‘’Culture teaches children both what to think and how to think’’. Children then acquire secondary discourse through schooling and structured learning. As individuals come from various backgrounds, they can develop barriers to learning, placing the student at a disadvantage in their preparation to learning. The barriers can be grouped into categories; systemic, societal, pedagogies and learning disabilities which may includes: a. A lack of appropriate learning support resources and assistive device. b. Inability to speak the learning language and insufficient specialist tutors e.g English speaks of other languages (ESOL). c. Social issues such as poverty, crime, abuse and attitudes, just mention a few. WHAT IS PHONICS WHAT IS PHONICS Phonics is simply the relationship between letters and sounds in a language. For example when a child learns that the letter A make the ‘a; they are learning phonics. Words are made up from small units of sound called phonemes. Phonics teaches children to be able to listen carefully and identify the phonemes that makes up each word. This help children to learn to read words and spell words. WHY IS PHONICS IMPORTANT? Learning phonics will help a child to learn to read and spell. Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of letters and letter combinations will help a child decoded words as they read. Knowing phonics will also help your child know with letters to use as they write words.
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