through listening, visualization, and experienced (hands-on) learning. Our brains feed on new material by the processes of reading and writing. Collectively forming literacy. Different individuals have their own ways of using this notion. The interactions I have had with soccer proves that there is a direct correlation with literacy. These practices of reading and writing on soccer are centered on the ability to create new experiences from interactive activities and progressively grow in…
Expressive Language: The developing ability to produce the sounds of language and use vocabulary and increasingly complex utterances (CDE, 2012. p.49). What specific strategies will you use to support dual language learners? Connecting Home to School Literacy Practices (CDE, 2009. p.74): Telling a Story: As a way to connect this activity from the school to home the children will be provided with a bag that has story Why Does Ice Melt? (How? What? Why?) by Jim Pipe,…
The two assessments that measure early literacy skills for students in grades K-2 are Early Literacy Skills Assessment (ELSA) by High/Scope and the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA). The ELSA evaluates a student’s "comprehension, phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, and concepts (DeBruin-Parecki, 2005).” This process consists of three separate forms that are to be completed by the assessor throughout several evaluation activities. The first form is completed during a…
Health literacy is the ability to understand spoken, written, and numerical information. This allows the patient to make informed decisions about their health care, making them feel empowered to take control of their health (Eadie, 2014). Approximately 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy, according to The Institute of Medicine, as reported by Eadie (2014), which leads to higher healthcare costs and poor health management of patients with comorbidities because they are unable to…
In Australia, most of our daily activities include literacy practices to some extent. Competency in literacy is required when reading medication labels, understanding instructions, traffic signals and other practices. Commonly, Standard Australian English (SAE) is used as a first language in Australian schools (Hanlen, 2010). However, Standard Australian English is not a first language for Indigenous students and in fact the most common language spoken by Aboriginal Australians is Aboriginal…
to become accustomed with the literacy of Canada is greatly important. In all honesty, three reasons are; requiring to concentrate upon Canadian Literacy/culture besides neighbouring cultures, the desire of promoting and constructing new current writers in Canada, while also motivating multicultural literacy to help reflect on Canada’s society. Therefore in order to be certain that Ontario students are able to comprehend Canada’s modern culture, the country’s literacy is needed in thigh school…
“Past Experiences and Future Attitudes in Literacy”, is an article written by Erika Jackson. In the article Jackson stated several claims of why having a positive past literacy experience is essential to an individuals’ future literary journey. Jackson made this claim by interviewing people of various ages. She wanted to know what had people taken away from their past learning experience. Did they lean toward a more negative or positive view of learning? Jackson made a successful claim, with…
kindergarten classes. According to the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy, half of kindergarten-fifth grade reading should involve informational books so by combining reading, writing and math you are really taking care of three standards at one time. A large portion of this article discusses the Scientific Literacy Project put together by Purdue University. The goal of the Scientific Literacy…
Literacy, the ability of reading and writing, has always been an important factor of my life. I’ve grown from my days in preschool, where I learned to write my name. I’ve now entered college, where I’ll learn to write detailed essays. I feel as if writing, reading, and I started at the edge of a mountain. Each time I write, there is growth expected, it’s like climbing a mountain. You don’t know which obstacles may come in your way, but you’re striving to reach the top. Unfortunately, because…
when it is acceptable to use internet language and when it is unacceptable. Children 10-12 who used “textisms” (words that are abbreviated in texts) and reading ability and it was POSITIVE (Uhls). This study shows that texting does not affect the literacy of student in a negative way. It affects them in a more positive way than it does negative. Although these students are using abbreviations while they are texting or on social media, the students are using the correct language while doing…