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Early Childhood Reading Education Essay

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Topic:Common Core Standard

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common core state standards are a set of standards that have been adopted for K-12. States have the ability to adopt the federal CCSS. The CCSS intended to provide new expectations for each grade level.

There are a number of different instructional approaches for language. Meaning-based approaches are based on the idea that children learn about literacy mainly through activities, interaction and observation, with little need for formal education. Skills-based approaches are those rooted in five core skills that are related to literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. Students learn to read by learning skills related to these elements. The blended approach combines the two, where teachers help the students to build on the base that they acquire via the meaning-based approach.

Meaning-based and skills-based perspectives need to be interwoven to provide effective preschool and elementary school education. There are several traits of effective teachers that go along with this. First, they teach children the basic skills that support learning, with a print-rich environment with a lot of reading material, and will support children's interactions with print. Teachers not only read to children daily but also encourage them to read on their own as well. A good teacher will also facilitate collaboration between students, so that they can help each other to learn and acquire key skills. There should be links in the classroom between literacy and play, and the children should be provided with opportunities to use literacy in real world situations. Further, multiple forms of assessment should be used to evaluate the children, to provide a more comprehensive picture of their progress.

The big ideas in this chapter are the common core standards, the three different perspectives for learning language and the different principles of effective teaching -- the three ideas discussed above.

CE 310 Unit 2

From birth to age 6 the focus is one building the pre-reading skills. These are phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, print awareness, vocabulary, and oral language. These skills form the basis for learning how to read, a process beginning in Grade 1 or age 6. In the primary grades, the focus shifts towards building other skills: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Understanding the reading process is important there. The reading process is predicting, checking and integrating. The reader will approach the text with predictions about it based on prior experience. The checking process is where the reader checks against the print and their experience and asks "does this make sense?." The final part, integrating, is where the reader asks "what does it mean?" From ages 6-8 the focus shifts to comprehension and strategic knowledge. Fluency is the latter end of this stage. Reading to learn occurs…


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Christie, J., Enz, B., Vukelich, C., & Roskos, K. (2013). Teaching language and literacy: Preschool through the elementary grades, fifth edition. Pearson.

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