After interviewing a couple of people, I was'nt satified with what was said to
me. I went back to interview more professionals regarding Literacy because of
the concerns I had as it relates to promoting literacy in the classroom (what it
promotes), while at home and in the womb. I was torn between chosing Literacy,
Poverty and or English Language Learners. I had the pleasure of
interviewing a Site Director, Early Childhood Teacher and Librarian. After each
interview, I decided to go with being an advocate for literacy.
Insights
I've gained during my conversation with the different professionals is that each
of them feel that literacy is not being done as often as it should. Parents are
the child's first teacher and reading to them while in the womb is of great
importance. Each of them had concerns about the absence of or lacking of the
quality of literacy. What are ways to encourage literacy. We as teacher make a
conscious effort to incorporate literacy, but it don't stop with us. We make
every effort
to met the need and interest in tin literacy a welcome one. The interviews
influenced my decision and provided great impact in my topic interest to proceed
further in my research on literacy.
It
has influenced my focus and helped me to narrow in on the lack, quality, and
ways to incorporate literacy. It caused me to look at literacy from another
perspective. I have to raise my thought pattern to fit into the real reason why
literacy is important in the early years of life. It lays the foundation for
future endeavors. It is vital in the life of a child to know how to read and
comprehend what is being ask of them through words.
A question I
have is, "Why is literacy not seen a important?
Well done, now how or when do you think literacy should be introduced to the child? I think literacy is important, but do you feel it is just literacy or how literacy connects to other areas of learning? In both literacy classes I had taken, we learn how much literacy plays a part in so many different avenues of learning.
ReplyDeleteI believe literacy play an important part in many area as it relates to reading. It's not just literacy that I'm looking at. I'm to looking at how words could be read in a number of ways.
DeleteI enjoyed reading your response. I like your topic about literacy. This a great way to figure out more about children's literacy development. What age are you going to research about?
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at Pre-K though third grade. I want to emphasize the importance of reading so to foster language development, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and concepts of print.
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