Extended Assessment 2 (EA 2)
EA 2: The Early Years Educator supports children's learning, development and school readiness.
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Emergent literacy appears before children know how to read and write words. A child’s knowledge of literacy, for example reading and writing is called emergent literacy. Emergent literacy skills can include; understanding stories, phonic knowledge, increasing vocabulary and increasing knowledge of letters and words. Development within literacy is emerging from a child’s language, reading for example picture books and writing for example scribbling. Within emerging literacy frameworks, children's early attempts at reading and writing are the beginnings of literacy skills.
As a practitioner I encourage children's literacy. I do this by asking questions about a book, for example during book reading time in school, a child reads the sentence 'the cat ran', I then asked the child why the cat may be running and to describe what the cat looks like. Asking the child to talk and discuss a subject further benefits the child understanding of what they are reading and the child uses more language to describe what is going on in the …show more content…
Some actions a baby and toddler do as part of their learning in literacy are; attending to pictures, feel pictures in a book, holding a book, names objects, turns pages, scribbles, remembers some pictures, points to objects and enjoys familiar stories. (ZERO, 2014) In a pre-school the signs of emergent literacy are; displays interest in books, handling books, listens to stories, preference to particular stories, scribbles and makes letter like shapes or imitating writing. Emergent literacy in early years is displayed through children when they; understand picture books, write letters, making connections to language and writing, read words and understand text and pictures are
EA 2: The Early Years Educator supports children's learning, development and school readiness.
D1
Emergent literacy appears before children know how to read and write words. A child’s knowledge of literacy, for example reading and writing is called emergent literacy. Emergent literacy skills can include; understanding stories, phonic knowledge, increasing vocabulary and increasing knowledge of letters and words. Development within literacy is emerging from a child’s language, reading for example picture books and writing for example scribbling. Within emerging literacy frameworks, children's early attempts at reading and writing are the beginnings of literacy skills.
As a practitioner I encourage children's literacy. I do this by asking questions about a book, for example during book reading time in school, a child reads the sentence 'the cat ran', I then asked the child why the cat may be running and to describe what the cat looks like. Asking the child to talk and discuss a subject further benefits the child understanding of what they are reading and the child uses more language to describe what is going on in the …show more content…
Some actions a baby and toddler do as part of their learning in literacy are; attending to pictures, feel pictures in a book, holding a book, names objects, turns pages, scribbles, remembers some pictures, points to objects and enjoys familiar stories. (ZERO, 2014) In a pre-school the signs of emergent literacy are; displays interest in books, handling books, listens to stories, preference to particular stories, scribbles and makes letter like shapes or imitating writing. Emergent literacy in early years is displayed through children when they; understand picture books, write letters, making connections to language and writing, read words and understand text and pictures are