Essay On Emergency Reading

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Introduction Preschoolers are classified as children who are too young for school yet but are ready to explore learning and processing. I didn’t think 3 year-olds would be able to comprehend and understand ideas and creativity. I was shocked to find this not true. Emergency reading is literacy developing in a child by exploration of the environment and print. Preschoolers have amazing drive to learn and are much more smarter that I ever imagined. The student I worked with was named Jace. He wasn’t the ‘quiet kept to himself in the corner’ kind of kid. He was loud spoken, eager, and joyful student. I enjoyed observing him.

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I went to Calvary Lutheran Preschool twice for forty-five minutes in the morning around 8:30;
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I spread all six books on the floor. This time Jace brought Henry with so I had two boys to read to and with. Jace chose his book first turning his book in the right direction face forward towards himself. I asked Jace to open up his first page where we are going to start reading. Jace struggled to open the page right away because the pages were pretty thin. I let Jace struggle because I was curious to which page we would open it to. He finally got the page and it was opened to the first page with the first pictures. Not, the introduction page. From there I started to read ‘Barney’s Trick or Treat!’ The boys listened intently. They started with only observing and taking in the first two pages but when they got comfortable with my talking they decided to chime in. The boys made comments on every page about the pictures. Jace pointed at the main objective at each page. I was confused in my own head, wondering if he understood what I was reading that 's why he knew what each page was about or if the illustrator did a wonderful job helping Jace to understand what the main objective was. Throughout the book I had Jace flip the pages. Beginning of our book again he struggled probably because of the thin papers but toward the middle he adapted. He learned how to smoothly turn the pages of a thin

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