Selecting appropriate texts for emergent and beginning literacy learners is as important as teaching a lesson. Providing each learner with texts where besides enjoying they are appropriate on creating language acquisition and building stamina because they are able to read and comprehend it as well. Dr. Hartman (Laureate Education, 2014a) explained a useful tool when selecting text for these literacy learners. He mentions that a great way to select texts is using a literacy matrix to locate each text in its correspondence quadrants. Parts of these quadrants are linguistics, which are full of words, narrative and informational text and semiotic which utilize images or other type of information besides the words. Taking into consideration what Dr. Hartman (Laureate Education, 2014a) explain with his quadrants, Dr. Almasi (Laureate Education, 2014a), states that there is a third dimension which lets the educator know other factors to consider. These factors to know are the readability that lets know the length and syllables counts, concept of density that is known through background knowledge and complex words, the length, font size, the visual support and structure of the text. All of these factors need to be considered in order to provide the learners the correct text for them to become life-long learners, but as well comprehend the reading.
For this week’s research, I selected three books for each of my literacy learners. First, I did the search for my beginning readers.
For this week’s research, I selected three books for each of my literacy learners. First, I did the search for my beginning readers.