Supporting Literacy Development PT2 Flashcards
What can you do to support reading?
Using stories and rhymes
Use adequate activities (e.g roleplay, puppets, circle time, storytelling and imaginative play)
This helps children to recognise and engage thier mind into recalling information and excite them to learn.
How do stories and rhymes help to support reading?
Repetition supports auditory discrimination- encourages them to hear patterns, rhyming and alliteration in words.
Develops confidence when using language- they start to predict what will happen next.
Finding patterns in words- helps them to understand how language works.
How does linking pictures and words help to support reading?
Looking at pictures and text can help children to develop their reading.
Making links to the actions can engage children into the act of reading.
What activities help with reading?
Story Sacks
Role Play
Puppets
Circle Time
Story Time
Recorded Stories and Music
Small World Play
How do these activities link to reading?
Story Sacks= makes it fun, gives a visual representation of the text.
Role Play= builds imagination, there will be text around it.
Puppets= makes it fun, visual and kinaesthetic.
Circle Time= useful for auditory learners, can be given text to read outloud, peer support, scaffolding can be given.
Story Time= specific time given to promote reading, hear practitioners to practice words as a child.
Recorded Stories and Music= repetitive so they can learn repeated rhymes, easier to learn words, fun activity.
Small World Play= fun for children, can use imagination, can use alongside reading books.
What are the 2 theories of literacy development?
Phonics Approach
Whole Language Approach
What is the Phonics Approach?
It is based on the link of letters to individual sounds.
There are 2 main methods: synthetic and analytical phonics.
Settings will use different phonic programs to teach children to read but they will use a similar approach.
What is synthetic phonics?
Learn individual sounds and blends in a particular order.
Put them together to form words.
What is analytical phonics?
Blends are taught rather than individual letter sounds.
What is meant by the term ‘blends’?
It is a combination of 2 or 3 consonant letters in which each consonant sound is voiced but blended together.
What are the strength of the Phonics Approach?
Sound-symbol connection
What is missing from the Phonics Approach?
Experience of the learners
Discussion
Reading and writing for meaningful communication
Action
What is the Whole Language Approach?
It encourages learners to look at and recognise whole words when learning to read.
Children are taught to use different cues to recognise words.
They will be introduced to high-frequency words, which do not fit into the regular phonic patterns.
It may take them longer to learn but it is less likely to make errors.
What are the strengths of the Whole Langugae Approach?
Reading and writing in a meaningful context
Use of local materials
Based on leaners’ knowledge of oral language
Development of writing skills based on needs, interests, skills and progress
What is the limitation of the Whole Language Approach?
Discussion for group action
