EDR 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Phonics, Grapheme, Alphabet Song
12 Dec 2016
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Early literacy development and emergent readers, pg 141. Early literacy skills begin at birth and last through the first five years of life. Children learn through an environment where they can talk and someone will listen, be talked to, read to, sung to, draw, and write. Helps develop oral language, understanding of print conventions, book handling, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, basic sight words, letters and their relationship to writing, and story structure. Birth to 8 months- first utterances like cries and burps. Sounds turn to babbling (specific but nonword sounds like dadadada) By 18 months- child develops authentic speech and is using rhythms, phrasings, and intonational patterns of their first language. Around 12 months- child displays that they understand speech is used for communication this is called the holographic stage ex. saying momma or dada whenever mom or dad is in view. Between 1 to 2yrs old- children add a second word when they speak ex.
