Promoting Literacy Development through Writing

Reflective Summary

Reflective Summary

Teachers are considered to be an essential part of a child's learning environment. In this context, the following paper discusses the accomplishments and the challenges for me that must be handled to promote learning and teaching for students. Accomplishments are discussed that reflects the significance of relationship between a child's learning and their parents and families. The home literacy environment has a major impact on a child's language and writing outcomes. The evidence suggests that the home literacy environment affects a child's language development. Specifically, home environments that promote literacy defined as the frequency of literacy activities or defined by a global measure of the home environment (i.e., a measure that documents the frequency of literacy activities, length of book reading, parental enjoyment of reading, etc.), result in higher vocabulary and expressive language outcomes during the preschool and early school-age years. Therefore, it is highly recommended that parents should take an interest for the development of their children. Also, teachers should pay more attention to the vocabulary use, so that a child can identify words when writing a paragraph. It has been researched that if a child is able of writing a word, this does not mean that he or she is writing because writing out a word does not convey meaning; this meaning must be in place before the word will be understood. To understand what is written is dependent upon a child's language skills to a certain extent. Language refers to all of the words in a child's vocabulary, as well as, his or her capability to use these words to recognize and convey meaning successfully. One good measure of language skill is vocabulary. Children with larger vocabularies, relative to their same-age peers, become more proficient readers. Therefore, it will be focused by me to make them better readers. For me to identify children who need additional instruction in key emergent literacy domains, I must determine accurately which children have developed age appropriate emergent literacy skills and which children are lagging behind. In this paper, accomplishments are discussed in the area of learning and writing difficulties of children. In addition, each area is discussed with the understanding of the concepts that why the area is significant to be learned by students and how teachers can play a role to make them learn a required concept.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Entry 4: Documented Accomplishments: Contributions to Student2

Accomplishment2

Learning4

Teacher as Learner6

Professional Responsibility8

Skills of Reading and Writing10

Spelling12

Writing and Drawing14

Writing / Play Connections14

Writing and Classroom Culture15

Writing and Identity17

Class-Based Strategies19

Class Based Playing Activities19

The Stories and Science Fiction Books19

Fantasy Plays20

Painting and Decoration20

How This Entry Challenges Me?22

Conclusion23

References24

Promoting Literacy Development through Writing

Introduction

The term 'literacy' has acquired connotations that go beyond its dictionary meaning of 'the state or condition of being literate'; the word 'literate' being used for a person who is able to read and write. In a very general sense this basic connotation of reading and writing remains, but in the contemporary context the additional connotations of the term derive from the changing ...