What is meant by literacy development?

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What is meant by literacy development?

Answer 1

Literacy development is the development of listening, speaking, writing and reading skills.  It is increasing the child's understanding of how language arts are combined and overlap in everyday preschool activities and thereby increases literacy.

When listening a child:

Hears speech

Can listen to another reading orally

Can listen and write what another hears

Speaking:

Can listen to a speaker

Can write what another speaks

Can read orally

Writing

Can write what is spoken and heard

Ones writing can be read

Writing can be read and spoken

Reading

can read written words

Can listen to  another reading

Can read speech when it is written

Literacy development happens within relationships. When you acknowledge an infant turning the page of a book or a toddler turning a picture book right side up, you are encouraging their interest in literacy.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Literacy is the understanding and the written form of communication. It includes:

Reading

Recognising letters and sounds

Writing

Making marks with meaning

Knowing the structure of a story and a sentence.

Basically literacy is part of both the foundtion stage (3-5's) and the main curriculum (5+).

Answer 3

Another vague question.  Literacy is parasitic upon the development of spoken language; - indeed if spoken language develops poorly, the child will more often than not develop problems in the development of literacy.

therefore literacy begins with spoken language, - the development of a good and wide ranging vocabulary.  Being exposed to rhyme and alliteration helps too.  The child then progresses to develop sensitivity to phonemes, onset and rime of words and syllable structure.  Then the child may begin to map graphemes onto phonemes. (Map letters onto sounds), - this is the beginning of beginning to decode written language (reading) and to encode it (writing)

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Answer 4

First, what is literacy?

It's most commonly defined as the ability to read, spell and communicate through written language. However, in a more general sense, literacy IS MORE than just the ability to read or write. It means being able to VIEW, LISTEN, READ,  COMPREHEND, EVALUATE, SPEAK, and WRITE effectively and systematically.

Literate children approach reading and writing as fun and exciting activities. They use reading to learn about a wide range of subjects, and they use writing to share their own ideas.  Youth who lack a comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to the world of literature tend to see writing and reading as work--something they have to do. Literacy broadens a person's world as surely as illiteracy narrows it.

How skillfully and successfully children develop their reading skills and grow towards literacy may influence their beliefs about their personal worth and abilities for a lifetime!

Aything that is presented to promote a person's literacy is Literacy Development...

What will develop Literacy? Make it fun with:

Daily Reading...Reading "Anything"...Talking about what is read...

A print rich environment, Playing language and word games,

Learning a Foreign Language or Sign-Lanugage, Music-Singing Songs, Writing Activities,  Access to a variety of writing supplies, Dramatic/Pretend Play, Jokes, Riddles, Tongue Twisters. Very important are good role models who love to read! The list of ideas goes on and on...

If you'd like some FUN Literacy Activities go to the "Literacy Thread" on http//:www.after-school-care.com

Answer 5

The following is something I found on the internet awhile back. Unfortunately I didn't get the website address on the page so I can't seem to find it again.  At the bottom you'll find the guidelines for children at age 5.  Hope it helps you!

Literacy Milestones: Age 5

By: Andrea DeBruin-Parecki, Kathryn Perkinson, and Lance Ferderer (2000)

Identifying a reading problem is a challenge without a sense for what typical literacy development looks like. Find out what language accomplishments are typical for most children at age five.

Most children learn to read by age 7. Learning to read is built on a foundation of language skills that children start learning at birth – a process that is both complicated and amazing. Most children develop certain skills as they move through the early stages of learning language.

The following list of such accomplishments is based on current research in the field, where studies continue and there is still much to learn. As you look over the list, keep in mind that children vary a great deal in how they develop and learn.

If you have questions or concerns about your child's progress, talk with your child's doctor, teacher, or a speech and language therapist. For children with any kind of disability or learning problem, the sooner they can get the special help they need, the easier it will be for them to learn.

At age 5, most kindergartners become able to:

Sound like they are reading when pretending to read

Enjoy being read to and retell simple stories

Use descriptive language to explain or to ask questions

Recognize letters and letter-sound matches

Show familiarity with rhyming and beginning sounds

Understand that print is read left-to-right and top-to-bottom

Begin to match spoken words with written ones

Begin to write letters of the alphabet and some words they use and hear often

Begin to write stories with some readable parts