Friday, 31 January 2014

Everyone has their own opinion on how children should be taught to read, and which is the easiest way, The "look and say" approach, where children learnt to memorise words, dominated in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. But now the pendulum has swung towards phonics-based teaching, where children decode words by sounds.
The Department for Education says international evidence demonstrates that phonics is the most effective way of teaching early reading, and this year introduced a phonics reading test for six-year-olds. 
The teaching method encourages children to sound out words rather than recognising the whole word and reading it for meaning. 
The government believe that Schools should be encouraged to set up visits to local businesses as well as museums and art galleries, argues the British Chamber of Commerce, as this is much more about preparing young people and giving them the knowledge of how the world of work works.”

Friday, 24 January 2014


Lineation

In Tony Ross’ children book ‘I Want a Cat’ the lineation of the text plays a vital part in helping children be able to read the book, and understand what is happening. This shows as the first sentence ‘On Monday Jessy went to school.’ This is a very clear sentence which sets the scene for the children, it gives them the chance to understand what is going on, and where the story is set, so then they can carry on reading. It then goes on the next line, which helps the children who are reading it as it is all spilt up instead of it all being in one big paragraph.

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

From this transcript, you can tell that Evie is most likely in the telegraphic stage of language development, and this is shows through virtuous errors and pronunciation development. Child directed speech is used throughout this transcript, as her Grandmother is supporting Evie in improving her speech development with the use of negative and positive reinforcement. With the help from her Grandmother Evie will develop her language at a quicker rate through interaction.

6 points to include

Prompting - "Whats tigger going to do?" and "Shall we have the bath in the picture do you think?" Grandmother is encouraging Evie to speak and talk about something which she will enjoy, letting her make the decisions.

Virtuous errors - "I sneeze" "You sneezed did you" correction so Evie will learn the right way to speak.