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Created an Early Literacy page in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_recovery
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Strategies for Promoting Early Literacy in the Class
- Show enthusiam in reading books
- Tell stories through drawn pictures
- Assemble a cut-up story (story sequencing)
- Reread stories so children learn the story lines and can 'read' them on their own
- Read rhyming books or pomes to the childre
- Sing songs and do finger plays
- Allow chilren to create and publish books
- Encourage dramatization of stories
- Clap out sylabols of words
- Make rhymes and songs using childrens names
- Working with letters and/or words using magnetic letters
Strategies for Promoting Early Literacy in the Home
- Read familiar stories
- Make up fun rhymes while doing chores
- Sing instead of talk
- Ask question and encourage child to ask questions
- Supply a wide variety of literacy equipment (crayons, paper, pens, envelopes, ect)
Foundations for Early Literacy Development
Oral Language
- strengthen listening and speaking abilities
- develop confidence in using language
- become familiar with vocabulary and sentence structure
Textual
- develop an enjoyment for reading
- becoming familiar with the language of fiction and nonfiction books
- develop basic book knowledge,
- develop concepts of print
- develop the ability to track print
Graphophonic
- strengthen auditory and visual discrimination
- develop phonemic awareness
- develop knowledge of letter-sound relationships
Independent Reading and Writing
- develop an enjoyment of writing
- perceiving oneself as a reader and writer
- view reading and writing as valuable