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emergent_literacy [2021/06/07 14:56] – [Emergent Literacy and Writing] 76.23.135.43emergent_literacy [2022/09/12 19:24] – [Definition] added clay reference jgmac1106
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 For  most  children so much of our literacy learning, especially the precursors of emergent literacy. happens before preschool and elementary school (Dickinson & McCabe, 2001; Watkins & Bunce, 1996). For  most  children so much of our literacy learning, especially the precursors of emergent literacy. happens before preschool and elementary school (Dickinson & McCabe, 2001; Watkins & Bunce, 1996).
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 +Marie Clay coined the term Emergent Literacy as building on a child's experience with meaningful print.They begin to recognize that print carries meaning and can delineate print from pictures.Children recognize that print contains meaning, it is important, and they increase the books and texts they read.
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 Piagtean perspectives of development also influenced further studies in invented spelling. Marie Clay in 1975 published a book "What Did I write?" where we published children's scribbles and inferred what they were trying to spell or say. This lead to numerous theories of children's developmental stages of writing. Piagtean perspectives of development also influenced further studies in invented spelling. Marie Clay in 1975 published a book "What Did I write?" where we published children's scribbles and inferred what they were trying to spell or say. This lead to numerous theories of children's developmental stages of writing.
  
-===== Emergent Literacy and the Home =====+==== Emergent Literacy and the Home ====
  
 Researchers also took on perspectives from anthropology and began to examine the influence of the "home" on emergent literacy. Researchers stressed the idea of literacy a s a deeply embedded set of cultural practices and not a set of skills taught in isolation (Taylor, 1983, Kirkland, 2016). Researchers also took on perspectives from anthropology and began to examine the influence of the "home" on emergent literacy. Researchers stressed the idea of literacy a s a deeply embedded set of cultural practices and not a set of skills taught in isolation (Taylor, 1983, Kirkland, 2016).
  
 Scholars from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition in San Diego took activity theory, developed by Leont'ev and  other Soviet psychologists based on the work of Vygotsky and applied it to early literacy.. These studies by examining families of marginalized communities found literacy as an act mediated by everyday life and only when the focus was literacy instruction did the dialogue stress learning. The key understanding was that literacy is linguistically bound to acquiring culture and the way literacy gets taught reflects and reinforces the culture through the act of learning. Scholars from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition in San Diego took activity theory, developed by Leont'ev and  other Soviet psychologists based on the work of Vygotsky and applied it to early literacy.. These studies by examining families of marginalized communities found literacy as an act mediated by everyday life and only when the focus was literacy instruction did the dialogue stress learning. The key understanding was that literacy is linguistically bound to acquiring culture and the way literacy gets taught reflects and reinforces the culture through the act of learning.
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 +==== Emergent Literacy Skills ====
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 +Again, while much of the focus on emergent literacy moves away from traditional and developmental phases of discrete skills patterns have emerged from research.
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 +  * Understanding print carries meaning (Justice & Ezell, 2001)
 +  * recognizing individual words in both print and speech (Tunmer, Bowey,& Grieve, 1983)
 +  * Having phonological awareness (Anthony, & Barker, 1998)
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 +==== Environmental Print ====
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 +The emergent literacy of alphabet knowledge, concepts about print, and emergent writing develop through interactions with text before formal schooling (Bowman & Treiman, 2004; Teale & Sulzby, 1986; Whitehurst & Lonigan, 1998). [[Environmental Print]], all the words, logos, and labels that surround children help to build emergent literacy.
  
 ==== In the Classroom ==== ==== In the Classroom ====
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