AO3 Flashcards
How often does it occur?
Shared reading activity/repeated reading rituals for school or household rule/links to bedtime routine
when does reading start?
unlike spoken language, reading and writing are taught to young children as a part of schooling from the age of four. However reading books is just one literary experience as they encounter the written word in other aspects of daily routine and cultural experience. Words are symbols to interpret but they are not always written in a string of words or a narrative structure of story books. For example ‘push’ and pull’ on the doors of buildings provide information about how to use them, as does the word ‘stop’ alongside a picture on a pedestrian crossing. Children also absorb information from television and computer sources and these have become part of the young learner’s literacy environment.
Purpose of baby and toddler books
many baby and toddler books aim to help with speech development by providing pictures for children to label objects and package/network build. These are often based around themes or topics using hypernyms (weather, clothes, animals) to provide children with relevant hyponyms (rain, socks, dogs). Nouns and adjectives are the most common work classes in early books that only contain a few words. These link children’s literacy experiences with the equivalent stage of speech acquisition, by giving labels for objects and increasing children’s knowledge of their immediate environment.
Purpose of early story books
they are designed to be read to children, not by them. they contain complicated words and grammatical structures that children can understand, even though they cannot read them or use them in their own speech. Children’s understanding of words and structures are ahead of their ability to use them.
Purpose of books for young children
Aim to be enjoyable and act as a shared experience: such books introduce children to stories and storytelling, as well as often being instructional.
Purpose of reading schemes
Reading schemes for school children are slightly different in that, although entertaining, they have been created to help in the formal learning process, been graded to assist children in acquiring fluency skills.
Independant readers
Children become independent around the age of eight. Books for older children are still entertaining, informative and instructive, but are centred on them as solo readers.
