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Lesson 1 The Constructivist Model: Authentic Literacy Task

The document discusses the Constructivist model of teaching literacy. Some key points: - The Constructivist model is based on the theory that knowledge is socially constructed through interactions with others. It emphasizes teaching literacy skills when they are useful for authentic tasks. - Literacy demands have increased in the 20th century with new genres and sophisticated literacy needed for new knowledge. This impacts what emergent learners acquire at home from parents. - The Constructivist model asserts that learners need to interact and be involved in meaningful activities, with support from adults. Skills are taught through authentic literacy tasks. Collaboration between parents, teachers, and students is important.

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Lesson 1 The Constructivist Model: Authentic Literacy Task

The document discusses the Constructivist model of teaching literacy. Some key points: - The Constructivist model is based on the theory that knowledge is socially constructed through interactions with others. It emphasizes teaching literacy skills when they are useful for authentic tasks. - Literacy demands have increased in the 20th century with new genres and sophisticated literacy needed for new knowledge. This impacts what emergent learners acquire at home from parents. - The Constructivist model asserts that learners need to interact and be involved in meaningful activities, with support from adults. Skills are taught through authentic literacy tasks. Collaboration between parents, teachers, and students is important.

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Lesson 1

The Constructivist Model

From these learning theories, concrete teaching models have


In Constructivist evolved and have been continuously modified to meet the needs of
model, skills are emergent learners and to develop their literacy skills. However, it is
taught at the point important to note that literacy of the 20th Century has paved a way to
when they are likely new literacy studies which would gradually lead to redefining literacy, to
to be useful to kids as reidentifying the perspectives for such new definition and that would
part of an authentic
significantly lead to redirecting the principles of early literacy, that is to
literacy task. examine the literacy behavior of young learners and the characteristics
of emergent readers and writers.

From the historical perspective, literacy is viewed to be changing over time. Christie (1990)
determined the rising literacy demands of the 20th century and described a more complex phenomenon
contrasted to the literacy of the earlier periods. She emphasized the greater level of sophistication in
literacy such as new kinds of writing, new genres which are necessary for new knowledge and new ways
of thinking. All these transitions certainly affect the kind of literacy an emergent learner acquires in the
home since parents are possessing and demonstrating sophisticated literacy and that literacy materials
readily available in the home and even in the community are determined by the new literacy brought by
the information age. Similarly, this kind of literacy provided in the home will be brought by young
learner in the school, and therefore the school much take such considerations in designing early literacy
instruction.

In response to the literacy demands of the 20th century, conducted researchers and designed
programs in literacy have provided specific ways in promoting early literacy. Significantly,
one model has been adopted and, or, has been adapted in early literacy instruction,
that is, the constructivist model. This is supported by the social constructivist Literacy of the 20th
theory of learning. Vygotsky (1978), stressed that knowledge is socially Century has paved
constructed by interacting with others in a variety of experiences. Moreover, the way to new
social interaction allows emergent learners to construct their own knowledge and literacy studies
viewed themselves as members of a community of learners as they interact with which would
their parents and other literate adults or, with their peers. The constructivist gradually lead to
model asserts that emergent learners need to interact which would positively redefining literacy.
make them interested and be involved in meaningful activities. It emphasizes that
young learners must be provided with adult support like parents, teachers, and other
literate adults to successfully acquire knowledge about literacy, to develop literacy skills and to
complete literacy tasks in varied literacy events.

The philosophy of Dewey undergirds constructivist education, a view on teaching and learning
as a conscious process of reconstruction of experience. He developed a strict criterion for determining
educative experience which must lead to positive growth. An educative experience must be continuous,
provoke change, and emphasized the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of
purposes which direct his activities in the learning process.

In the constructivist model, skills are taught at the point when they are likely to be useful to
kids, as part of an authentic literacy task (Au, 1993). Au emphasized the significant work of Vygotsky
(1978, 1981) which asserts that learning is basically a social process that takes place through the
interaction between children and others in their environment.

Further, Au (1993) thoroughly discussed the four distinct advantages of the constructivist
model:

1) Literacy instruction embedded in meaningful social contexts,


2) Student’s exploration of the functions of literacy
3) Student-centered, and
4) Recognized different life experiences and cultural schemata in the meaning-making process.
In a constructivist perspective, young learners set their own goals for literacy learning and
monitor their own progress in achieving those goals

The constructivist model recognizes the collaboration of parents and teachers, as well as
other literate members of the community, and the active involvement of the young learners in
their literacy. The parent’s collaboration will provide input to preschool teacher about their kid’s
literacy behavior. Similarly, the teacher’s collaboration will allow him/her to make the parents
recognize their critical role in their child’s early literacy development. Involvement and open
dialogues between parents and teachers are opportunities to better emphasize how early
literacy acquired in the home relates to the early literacy development in the school. This
collaboration certainly involves the active participations of the emergent learners because
through collaboration, they become more interested and more involved in meaningful activities.
Further, collaboration serves as support to complete their activity successfully and to improve
their early literacy skills. As Bruner (1986) stressed those students learn most effectively when
they are actively involved in their learning.

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