Teaching Literacy
Introduction
Literacy is basically defined as the capability to write and read with proficiency levels that can facilitate efficient and reliable communication both through writing and reading.
Dissertation/Discussion One: Creation of a Literacy-rich Environment.
A literacy-rich environment is one where there are a lot of resources that can help students’ develop their literacy skills. It should be an environment where they are also active contributors to their learning through acts such as play. One of the methods of creating a literacy-rich environment entails surrounding the room with print such as placing labels on items and pictures and captions in the places where they can attract the student’s attention.
Labeling of material within the classroom also helps in creating a literacy-rich environment. Posting signs at learning and play centers to indicate direction and procedures also helps in the creation of a literacy rich environment. The use of dramatic play where students pretend to write recipes, price lists or prescriptions may also help in fostering such an environment. Teaching literacy require quantity reading rather than quality reading, and as such page turners are recommended as the best option that can offer interesting reading in large volumes so as to foster literacy development.
Examples of recommended page turners for the 1st to 4th grade-where literacy development is important include: Big Nate: In a class by himself (Lincoln Pierce), Everything for a dog (Ann, M. Martin), Maniac Magee (Jerry Spinelli), How to eat fried worms (Thomas Rockwell), Dave at Night (Gail Carson Levine), Tales of fourth grade nothing (Judy Blume)-just to mention but a few. These are useful because they offer quantity and interesting reading.
Dissertation/Discussion One: Using Poetry to Promote Literacy.
Students learn well when handling literary material that that they can develop interest in. Poetry is a form of interesting literary material because it combines performance, reading for interpretation, rhyming recitals that are interesting as well as actual poem production. Through poetry lessons having activities that involve poem recital and poem exploration for meaning students can achieve literacy.
The use of poems to teach literacy may involve exploration for meaning, rhyming words, sentence structure, vocabulary, print concepts and sight words-all these activities help in the development of literacy. These poems can later be compiled for students to take home and share with peers and families as an extension of the literacy study.
Is this your assignment or some part of it?
We can do it for you! Click to Order!
