Early Literacy Instructions Summary

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The article I chose to write about is The Essentials of Early Literacy Instructions. I chose this article because I think it is something that future teacher should read before teaching a child how to read. As I was reading this article, I remembered my struggles with learning to read when I was in elementary school. I used to dread when the teacher would call on me to read aloud to the class. At the time, I couldn’t read as fast as the other students and would struggle to sound out words. However, this problem became a thing of the past after my parents and teacher became aware of it. My parents worked with me every night to improve my reading level. Some nights I would follow along with my finger on the page to get familiar with the words as they would read aloud. Other we would change positions and I would read aloud while they followed to make sure I was getting all the words and pronouncing them correctly. I still believe that without the help of my parents and teacher I would still be struggling with reading today. I believe that children need to be read to for them to hear how words should be pronounced. Just reading with your child every night is important. From these experiences, they learn how to pronounce words on a page and their meaning behind them. …show more content…

I have seen this some in the classrooms that I have observed. However, recently I have just seen teachers reading a story aloud to the children after an activity that arouses the children’s interests, but there are no during-reading prompts and questions or after-reading questions. I believe this something that needs to remain in the classroom. When children are not given opportunities to actively participate, they start to focus on other things instead of the story being read to them. When children have something to focus on they are staying actively engages with the text being read and

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