Emergent Literacy

Over the years, education in the United States has evolved. From the one room school house to the digital age. Due to modern trends, technology has become more and more prevalent within United States education system. Most classrooms across the country have computers or tablets for their students to use throughout the educational day. There have been countless different programs and web applications developed aimed towards assisting students in their academic studies, particularly in regards to the child’s literacy skills. There are programs designed to teach children skills such as letter identification, letter sound recognition, sight word recognition, phoneme identification at the beginning, middle, and end of the word as well as many others. …show more content…
A child’s emergent literacy skills are considered to be the door towards their education. All other subject matter and material the student will discover throughout their educational career will be introduced in such a way that requires the student to be a fluent reader, listener, speaker, and writer. This fluency will, in turn, pave the child’s future growth into their adult life. Their ability to read, analyze, synthesize, comprehend and interact with information will promote the growth of other future skills. While we stress the importance of emergent literacy in the classroom, as educators, we must decide whether technology is assisting our students towards reading their academic goals or if it is hindering their potential growth. How does modern technology effect the levels of emergent literacy in elementary school children? If so, which programs should be used to aid and assist students reading, listening, speaking, and writing