Module in Beed 14
Module in Beed 14
Teaching English In The Elementary Grades Through Literature (Negros Oriental State
University)
Module 1
In
Module 1
Introduction
Literacy is the ability to read, write, speak and listen in a way that lets
us communicate effectively and make sense of the world.
Lacking vital literacy skills holds a person back at every stage of their
life. As a child they won't be able to succeed at school, as a young adult they
will be locked out of the job market, and as a parent they won't be able to
support their own child's learning. This intergenerational cycle makes social
mobility and a fairer society more difficult. But beyond the functional level,
literacy plays a vital role in transforming students into socially engaged
citizens. Being able to read and write means being able to keep up with
current events, communicate effectively, and understand the issues that are
shaping our world. People with low literacy skills may not be able to read a
book or newspaper, understand road signs or price labels, make sense of a
bus or train timetable, fill out a form, read instructions on medicines or use
the internet.
Lesson 1
Course Overview & What is Literacy?
Specific Learning Outcomes:
1. (K) Explain the importance of literacy and how it affects people.
2. (S) Differentiate emergent, beginning and good readers.
3. (S) Enumerate the ways on how to handle and develop emergent,
beginning and good readers.
4. (A) Relate how important literacy is.
Motivation/Prompting Questions
But beyond the functional level, literacy plays a vital role in transforming students into
socially engaged citizens. Being able to read and write means being able to keep up
with current events, communicate effectively, and understand the issues that are
shaping our world (https://www.3plearning.com/literacy-important/).
Elementary Literacy
Literacy is a key to lifelong learning and opportunities for success. Effective elementary
literacy instruction develops students' linguistic and cognitive abilities through the
explicit integration of reading, writing, speaking, and listening into instruction across all
content areas and activities. Oral language, reading, writing, and content instruction
support and enrich each other. Students must be provided with experience in all these
areas if they are to achieve success.
The school curriculum poses many challenges to students for whom English is a second
language (ESL).
Emergent Reading
-emphasizes the developmental continuum aspect of learning to read and advocates
the importance of reading-related behaviors occurring before school.
-the term “emergent reading” is derived from “emergent literacy” and is used to
advocate that the development of reading starts early in a child’s life instead of school
years. The emergent literacy includes both reading and writing components. The
concept “emergent reading” emphasizes the developmental continuum aspect in
learning to read, rather than an all-or-none phenomenon that begins only when a child
starts school, suggesting there is a boundary between reading and pre-reading.
-Emergent reading consists of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are presumed to
be developmental precursors to conventional forms of reading [1, 3] and the
environments supporting these developments (e.g., home literacy environment, shared
book reading, etc.).
Based on the literature, the main components of emergent reading include vocabulary
knowledge, decontextualized language skills, conventions of print, knowledge of letters,
linguistic awareness, and phoneme-grapheme correspondence.
know the meaning, he/she is unlikely enjoying the reading process since the child has
no semantic representation through which a child decodes the phonological information.
Decontextualized language skills refer to the language used in story narratives and
other written forms of communications to convey novel information to readers.
Conventions of print in English include the left-to-right and top-to-bottom direction of
print, the sequence in which the print progresses from front to back across pages, the
difference between pictures and print on a page, and the meaning of elements of
punctuation. Knowing these conventions helps a child learn to read. Decontextualized
language skills in children are related to conventional reading skills including decoding,
understanding story narratives, and print production.
Knowledge of letters is critical to learning the sounds associated with the letters.
However, only teaching letter names may only increase surface letter knowledge and
may not improve the abilities to learn to read.
Linguistic awareness involves the ability to take language as a cognitive object and to
understand how language is constructed and to use language as a way of
communication. Linguistic awareness develops over time, and a child may be aware of
some rules (e.g., that words are formed from phonemes) without being aware of other
rules (e.g., two words rhyme). Many studies have suggested that children good at
detecting syllables and rhymes are better readers.
Linguistic awareness involves the ability to take language as a cognitive object and to
possess information about the syntax. The relation appears to be reciprocal. Better
phonological skills led to quicker learning to read, while learning to read improves
phonological skills.
Phoneme-grapheme correspondence represents the links between phonemes and
alphabet letters. A child requires to understand both how individual letter sounds and
how combined letters sound. This ability has been related to higher levels of reading
achievement.
Emergent readers may be willing to attempt to read simple texts or they may be
unwilling to make any attempts at all.
Emergent readers are usually also emergent writers.
Emergent readers want to be able to read books independently.
Beginning Readers
They are building their fluency. This means they're working to make several skills, like
matching a letter to a sound and decoding, more smooth, accurate and automatic.
Without fluency, each word must be decoded, and that takes time and energy. This
means that other reading behaviors like reading with expression and comprehension
have less of a focus.
These aspiring readers are learning basic concepts about print and a book. For
example, we read left to right, top to bottom and print continues from the end of one line
to the beginning of the next (return sweep). They are also learning to identify the parts
of a book (e.g. title, title page).
How to Read with a Beginning Reader
Good Readers
One way that researchers have studied what good readers do, has been to ask them to
think aloud as they read. From these studies, researchers have determined that the
seemingly effortless activity described as "good reading" is made up of a set of highly
complex, well-developed, and well-practiced skills and abilities. Particularly impressive
is the way in which good readers actively and consciously coordinate these skills and
strategies before, during, and after reading a text.
Before reading, good readers tend to set goals for their reading. They note the
structure, or organization of the text, and often create a mental overview or outline of
the text to help them decide whether it is relevant to their goals.
During reading, good readers read words accurately and quickly, and simultaneously
deal with the meanings of those words — as well as the meanings of the phrases and
sentences into which the words are grouped. Good readers connect the meaning of one
sentence to the meaning of another. If something is confusing to them, they use their
background knowledge to try to clarify the meanings of words and phrases. Sometimes
good readers interact with the text by asking themselves questions about its content
and reflecting on its ideas.
They are adept at using their background knowledge to make predictions about what
might happen next and to understand ideas as they encounter them. Good readers
continuously evaluate their predictions and revise them as needed.
Good readers are selective as they read. They are likely to focus more of their attention
on the parts of the text that are most closely tied to their reading goals. They may
decide to skip some parts of a text because they already understand the content or
because they do not think the parts are important to what they need (or want) to learn
from the text. They may decide, after reading several pages, to skip the rest of a
chapter because they recently read something similar.
On the other hand, they may decide — either because they do not clearly understand
the content or because they find the topic interesting — to reread a passage or chapter
before going on. They also may summarize the content of a passage as they read it. In
doing so, they may consciously determine what is important, what is supportive, and
what is less important.
As they read, good readers often make inferences. They may draw on their background
knowledge or look for clues in the text to supply information about characters or events
that the author has not provided directly. Some good readers may also create mental
images, or visualize a setting, event, or character to help them understand a passage in
a text. Good readers monitor their comprehension as they read.9 When they realize that
they do not understand what they are reading, they apply procedures to "repair" or "fix-
up" their lack of understanding. For example, they may ask themselves questions about
the meaning of what they are reading, they may rephrase a passage in their own words,
they may look up the meanings of difficult words, or they may outline the content of the
text.
After reading, good readers often think about, or reflect on what they read. They may
mentally summarize major points or events in the text, or even go to other sources to
find additional information about the topic of the reading.
In short, good readers are most often strategic readers. That is, they use a number of
comprehension strategies to get meaning from text. Comprehension strategies are
conscious plans or procedures that are under the control of a reader, who makes
decisions about which strategies to use and when to use them. In addition, good
readers engage in metacognition as they read. Cognition refers to mental functions
such as remembering, focusing attention, and processing information. Metacognition
refers to people's awareness of their cognition; that is, their thoughts about their own
thinking. From an array of possibilities, for example, readers with metacognitive
Learning Activities/Exercises
Exercise:
Enumerate the ways on how to handle and develop emergent, beginning,
and good readers.
Teacher Intervention
It is suggested that you will call this number,09264629995/send Email to
[email protected], or DM on messenger whenever you have
queries on the lessons presented. Your instructor may also meet you through
GC in your assigned class schedule.
Practice Task/Assessment.
Suppose you are a Kinder teacher, how will you teach these type of readers.
Feedback to Assessment
Assignment:
Enrichment Activity
How does literacy affect people?
Personal Reflection
What have you learned today?
Grading Rubric
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References:
https://www.3plearning.com/literacy-important/
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-research-tells-us-about-reading-
comprehension-and-comprehension-instruction
https://www.lcps.org/Page/50594
Lesson 2
Approaches to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students &
Role of Children’s Literature in Developing Love for Reading
Specific Learning Outcomes:
1. (K) Explain the importance of developing children’s love for reading.
2. (S) Enumerate the ways on how to develop children’s love for reading.
Motivation/Prompting Questions
Lesson 2
wore PJs, took their pillows and stuffed animals to school, were invited
to re-read their favorite books or select a "challenge book." Parents
supplied snacks, teachers and administrators read. It was fun and
community building and they raised a lot of money.
5. Take a field trip. This is another way to make reading social and
exciting. Visit your local library, a university library or a bookstore. It's
not about checking out or buying books -- it's about being surrounded
by thousands of books, touching their gorgeous pages, seeing the
world of possibility in print, salivating over what there is to know and
explore. In my family, we often take weekend trips to explore different
bookstores in the area. We make it an adventure and talk about what
constitutes a "good bookstore;" it's just fun. This is another event that
parents can organize and administrators can support or encourage.
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Role of Children’s Literature in Developing Love for Reading
Reading aloud to children and letting them discuss what they have visualized
during the read-aloud fosters imagination and supports for the understanding of text and
the world around them.
Sharing a story should be fun for everyone, even grown-ups! Read it yourself first and
have a think about the characters and plot. If you love it, chances are they will too! This
also means that there will be no surprises that might trip you up as you read.
2. Get comfy
Are there enough cushions and blankets to sit on? Can you be heard? Is there enough
light? If your children are easily distracted, they can draw or play games quietly while
you read; they’ll still reap the benefits of your storytelling.
5. Mix it up
Changing tempo is a great way to grab children’s attention and build suspense or add
humour. Try slowing down or speeding up for different scenes. With emotional books,
it’s especially important to keep it real, so make the differences subtle.
8. Make it interactive
Involve your listeners! You can ask them to repeat sentences, encourage them to add
sound effects, get them to count and name what they see and even let them guess
what’s coming next.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2019/feb/tips-for-sharing-stories-with-
children.html
Learning Activities/Exercises
Exercise:
Enumerate the roles of children’s literature in developing love for reading.
Teacher Intervention
It is suggested that you will call this number,09264629995/send Email
to [email protected], or DM on messenger whenever you have
queries on the lessons presented. Your instructor may also meet you through
GC in your assigned class schedule.
Practice Task/Assessment.
What are the ways to cultivate children’s love for reading? Discuss your
strategies.
Feedback to Assessment
Assignment:
Enrichment Activity
Demonstrate how to share stories with children.
Personal Reflection
What have you learned today?
Grading Rubric
https://studylib.net/doc/8250135/grading-rubric-for-written-assignments
References:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2019/feb/tips-for-sharing-stories-
with-children.html
https://www.writeawriting.com/writers/literature-and-its-many-types/
https://www.edutopia.org/cultivating-love-reading-students-elena-aguilar
https://www.nwaea.org/connections-reading-blog/2014/03/18/the-roles-of-
children-s-literature-in-the-primary-grades
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2019/feb/tips-for-sharing-stories-
with-children.html