scholarly journals Early Literacy in Wisconsin: Sharing a Statewide Harvest

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Tessa Michaelson Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Simple Idea ◽  
Literacy Initiative ◽  
Original Audience ◽  
Local Partnerships ◽  
State Regional ◽  
Parents And Caregivers

When the Growing Wisconsin Readers early literacy initiative (growingwisconsinreaders.org) began in 2013, the focus was straightforward: help parents and caregivers read effectively with babies, toddlers, and young children. As this multiyear initiative passes the halfway mark, it is clear that this simple idea has sprouted, branched, and bloomed in bountiful ways. Not only has the early literacy message reached the original audience, but the project has established and enriched state, regional, and local partnerships.

A, B and (not) Seeing: Animals and Other Ironies in Alphabet Books

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-237
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ford
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Word Play ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Alphabet Books ◽  
Child Readers

For generations, alphabet books have been widely used by parents, librarians and teachers as early literacy tools for young children. Through images, word play and the interactions between word and image, alphabet books have the effect of introducing preliterate young children to the names, images, symbols and concepts regarding animals, what Matthew Calarco has called ‘symbolic mechanisms’ of animals—names, images, concepts, cultural associations of animals—yet they can also be deconstructive of those same mechanisms. Derrida's insights into the contradictory logic of the supplement and parergon as well as the ‘destabilising synergies of word and image’ offer deconstructive readings of alphabet books for adult and child readers. Recognising what Derrida calls the ‘childlike’ in texts such as alphabet books creates unique polymorphous spaces for the further interrogation of notions of animals.

scholarly journals Biomedical Approaches to Literacy: Two Curriculum Teachers Challenge the Treatment of Dis/Ability in Contemporary Early Literacy Education

1944 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Heydon ◽  
Luigi Iannacci
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Curriculum Studies ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Early School ◽  
School Curricula

This paper is a critical examination of the state of Canadian literacy education and research and its effects on young children. Its purpose is to appraise the ways in which disability is currently being produced and practiced in early school curricula and to argue for a theoretically rich curricula which begins from children’s strengths. To accomplish these goals, this paper commences with a brief appraisal of curriculum studies’ lack of attention to issues of dis/ability, considers major movements in literacy curricula, then contends that an innovation in literacy curricula the authors term, “the biomedical approach”, is pathologizing entire school populations and inflicting upon them reductionistic literacy curricula. This paper illustrates the biomedical approach through a narrative of a public school and the experiences of its early years staff and students.

Fostering Early Literacy Skills with Technology

2014 ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela M. Sullivan ◽  
Marianne Baker
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Early Literacy Skills ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Literacy Learners ◽  
Selection Of

In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of research literature for technology use with emergent-stage literacy learners. They review the overall research on technology for young children, then look at literacy and the role of technology in the classroom. The authors outline the development of literacy skills in the emergent stage (commonly defined as birth to age five). Finally, they use the framework established by the previous studies and the developmental sequence of the emergent stage to critically evaluate several literacy apps and e-books aimed at these learners. The authors finish with a selection of resources for selecting and using technology to foster these early literacy skills.

Essential Experiences to Undergird the Early Development of Literacy

1997 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Koenig ◽  
C. Farrenkopf
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Visual Impairments ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Children With Visual Impairments

This study identified a repertoire of essential early life experiences to which young children with visual impairments need to be exposed to undergird their development of literacy. The authors analyzed 254 stories from three published basal literacy series to identify the experiences necessary to bring meaning to each story. Through analysis and categorization of the data, they then identified 22 global areas of experience as essential. Guidelines for providing these experiences are suggested, including ways to link experiences to early literacy events.

Storytelling: The Seeds of Children's Creativity

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Memory Recall ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Early Literacy Development ◽  
Effective Role

Storytelling is an effective educational tool that features strongly across all cultures since human language evolved. Today, it is rarely heard in conventional learning environments. This paper describes an educational program based on storytelling. Research shows that storytelling has the ability to build a greater sense of community, enhance knowledge and memory recall, support early literacy development, and expand creative potential in young children. This program explores storytelling's potential for this through a broad range of extension activities. Conclusively, it is argued that storytelling has a highly effective role to play in the education of young children.

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