Essay on Emerging literacy

Emerging readers need understandings of the elements of literacy such as letter knowledge, concepts of words and phonemes to develop their early reading and writing skills. In the current essay I will suppose that I am a teacher, and I will describe what activities/strategies I will be using for promoting children’s emerging literacy. I think this process is important and will be helpful for children and their parents in the future.

Critical elements that influence children’s early reading and writing skills are the facts that children do not have proper childhood, they are constantly concentrate on something, they get tired and exhausted- too much for their age. There are also many contradictive opinions considering the fact when children should start become literate. Isn’t it too early to start for them from such an early age? Promotion of the emerging literacy has to be carefully thought-out and there have to be certain plans and goals implemented.

However, emerging literacy should be promoted among children, but they should note be forced to do anything difficult and specific. There should be a certain freedom offered for them to make them get involved faster and easier. If children are not forced into reading, it is more likely that they get interested in the process themselves. Parents have to be attentive with children at such moments. From a position of a teacher I would use activities that will make everything more interesting for children to explore, to find out. I think that motivation and freedom are extremely important and can give great results. Strategies of motivation, some modern trends and new approaches can be helpful, according to What is emerging literacy? (2010).

It should be noted that “Emergent literacy is a term first used by Marie Clay to describe how young children interact with books and when reading and writing, even though they could not read or write in the conventional sense”, according to What is emerging literacy? (2010)

“In order to develop and expand research and knowledge about emerging literacy, the authors recommend to define literacy more broadly to include linguistic and nonlinguistic communication”, according to Emergent literacy (1999).

All in all, “The research and theoretical developments of the last decade have dramatically altered how we view young children’s movement into literacy (Teale & Sulzby, 1986). The term literacy relates to both reading and writing and suggests the simultaneous development and mutually reinforcing effects of these two aspects of communication. Literacy development is seen as emerging from children’s oral language development and their initial, often unconventional attempts at reading (usually based on pictures) and writing (at first, scribbling) -hence the term emergent literacy. Within an emergent literacy framework, children’s early unconventional attempts at reading and writing are respected as legitimate beginnings of literacy”, according to What is emergent literacy? (2009).

According to Emergent literacy (1999), “The variety of children designated as autistic, learning-disabled, or hearing- and visually- impaired (see Craig, 1996; Kavims & Pierce, 1995, for some examples) because of dealing with the emerging literacy.” There are always emerging perspectives when there is something interesting and useful that the society can use for the use of the children. Emerging literacy helps to create any number of opportunities for children to practice their unconventional yet emerging skills and lead to the best possible outcome.