Promoting Childhood Literacy Social Workers have an ethical responsibility to the broader society. NASW code of ethics states, “Social Workers should engage in social and political action that seeks to ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully” (Workers, 2008, p. 27). Promoting childhood literacy is a small piece of empowering the broader society. Hosting a literacy event and encouraging reading at a young age can help develop language and comprehensive skills fully. The participants can be of any age and there can be 15-20 partakers in the class. If more community members want to participate employ the help colleagues.
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“In interactive reading, adults and children are active participants in a conversation, or dialogue, about the book. Adults plan the experience to support, challenge, and extend children’s literacy skills” (Barclay, 2014, p. 78). Barclay (2014) goes to say that children should set the pace of reading and adults should monitor body language, understanding, and motivation. It is from those observations that a conversation should be started. To conclude, the facilitator will speak on the importance of having a relationship with the child’s school. “Postlethwaite and Ross (1992) found that reading at school was the number three predictor of reading achievement worldwide” (Rasinski & Padak, 2011, p. 553). Encourage parents to inquire about the amount of time children are reading at school and who is reading with the children. Some schools have literacy coaches. Kissel, Mraz, Algozzine, and Stover (2011) write, “The traditional role of the reading specialist is a teacher for students described as “at risk” emerged under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 and evolved into the current role under the ESEA of 2000” (p. 289). In the current role the literacy coach is more of a supportive role for the teacher, they provide resources to the teacher. However, the role and responsibilities of the literacy coach varies from school to school (p. …show more content…
Social learning is a theory that was built on by Bandura in 1977. He proposed a four-step process for how individuals learned by observing others behavior. The four steps included attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation (Huitt & Monetti, 2013, p. 1). Huitt and Monetti (2013), go on to state “Through the careful observation of others, individuals learn numerous new behaviors such as emotional reactions and how to use tools in their environments (p. 1). Strengths-based perspective should be employed to show anything adults are doing positively, not point out areas they are lacking in. Parents should also be informed of techniques to advocate for themselves and the children as well as techniques of positive
“In interactive reading, adults and children are active participants in a conversation, or dialogue, about the book. Adults plan the experience to support, challenge, and extend children’s literacy skills” (Barclay, 2014, p. 78). Barclay (2014) goes to say that children should set the pace of reading and adults should monitor body language, understanding, and motivation. It is from those observations that a conversation should be started. To conclude, the facilitator will speak on the importance of having a relationship with the child’s school. “Postlethwaite and Ross (1992) found that reading at school was the number three predictor of reading achievement worldwide” (Rasinski & Padak, 2011, p. 553). Encourage parents to inquire about the amount of time children are reading at school and who is reading with the children. Some schools have literacy coaches. Kissel, Mraz, Algozzine, and Stover (2011) write, “The traditional role of the reading specialist is a teacher for students described as “at risk” emerged under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 and evolved into the current role under the ESEA of 2000” (p. 289). In the current role the literacy coach is more of a supportive role for the teacher, they provide resources to the teacher. However, the role and responsibilities of the literacy coach varies from school to school (p. …show more content…
Social learning is a theory that was built on by Bandura in 1977. He proposed a four-step process for how individuals learned by observing others behavior. The four steps included attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation (Huitt & Monetti, 2013, p. 1). Huitt and Monetti (2013), go on to state “Through the careful observation of others, individuals learn numerous new behaviors such as emotional reactions and how to use tools in their environments (p. 1). Strengths-based perspective should be employed to show anything adults are doing positively, not point out areas they are lacking in. Parents should also be informed of techniques to advocate for themselves and the children as well as techniques of positive