Observation Of Literacy In The Classroom

The child that I chose to observe turned out to be the most interested in literacy out of the entire class. This four year old girl came into classroom and was offered the option of joining the carpet where the boys were playing with blocks. She did not want to join the boys on the carpet to play with blocks, instead she was given the idea from Ms. Christy to bring a book over for her to read. The child ran over to the book shelf to pick out a book. You could tell she was happy to do this. At other points during the day she was the only one who was sitting at the writing center when their was not enough room at the centers. She had the option of playing with anything in the room in the mean time, but she chose to to sit at the writing center tracing letters. You could tell she had a love for literacy …show more content…
I could tell needed this time to take it all in before she interacted with doing the same motions as everyone else. This occurred during the germ song and The Story of Jack and The Beanstalk. What was very helpful and reassuring for me that this child is very involved with literacy was at one point during my observing the teacher Ms. Christy was in the observation booth to observe her class and intern. She was able to give me more information about this child’s literacy involvement and skills. What she had told me is that she reads to the dolls, reenacts situations, uses puppetry as a form of literacy and is working on writing her name. The child is able to write the beginning and end letters of her name. Its is taking time for her to memorize it and write the entire thing since it is not a short name. It is great that her classroom is a print rich environment and supports her love for books and writing. Something that amazes me is her desire to use literacy as play, instead of going over to the blocks for