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Chapter Three
Understanding the Literacy Development of
Young Children
Reading Readiness
Piaget
“Ages and Stages” – One stage THEN the next
stage
(look at Piaget’s stages for the ExCET)
Maturation is Key
IQ
Emergent Literature
Vygotsky
Learning is socially constructed
Zone of Proximal Development
Literacy begins at birth and continues throughout
life.
Reading / Writing / Speaking / Listening are
mutually supportive elements of language and
should not be separated.
The Affective/Conative
Domains
Affective – Values, beliefs, feelings
Conative – Persistence, determination
Cueing Systems
Grapho / Phonic - Letter / Sound System
Syntactic – Grammar (word order)
Semantic – System of Meaning
Pragmatic – Situation (social constructions)
Syntactic
P
R
A
Semantic
G
M
A
T
I
Graph / Phonic
C
Language Acquisition
Behaviorist
Stimulus / Response - Pavlov
Innatist
LAD – Chomsky
Interactionist
S / R AND LAD - Vygotsky
Stages of Oral Development
0 – 12 months: From “burps” to “babbling”
1 – 2: Holophrasic to telegraphic (2 words)
2 – 3: Telegraphic to descriptive ((NO!))
3 - 4: Simple to Complex ((Overgeneralization of
rules))
4 – 6: Toward refinement ((Generative
Language))
Reading Stages
Pre-independent
Independent
Stages of Writing
Scribbling & Drawing
PrePhonemic
Early Phonemic
Letter Naming
Transitional
Conventional
Story Grammar
Setting
Initiating Event
Response to Event
Plan
Series of “attempts”
Outcome
Resolution
Environmental Print
Print found in everyday life.
TORP
Take in class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!