The Comprehensive Emergent Literacy Model: Early Literacy in Context

SAGE Open

Leigh Rohde¹ 

关键词: education;    social sciences;    curriculum;    literacy;    education theory;    practice;    early childhood;    educational psychology;    counseling;    educational research;    teacher education;    students;    teaching;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244015577664

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

The early skills of Emergent Literacy include the knowledge and abilities related to the alphabet, phonological awareness, symbolic representation, and communication. However, existing models of emergent literacy focus on discrete skills and miss the perspective of the surrounding environment. Early literacy skills, including their relationship to one another, and the substantial impact of the setting and context, are critical in ensuring that children gain all of the preliminary skills and awareness they will need to become successful readers and writers. Research findings over the last few decades have led to a fuller understanding of all that emergent literacy includes, resulting in a need for a new, more comprehensive model. A new model, described in this article, strives to explain how emergent literacy can be viewed as an interactive process of skills and context rather than a linear series of individual components. Early literacy learning opportunities are more likely to happen when teachers have a solid knowledge base of emergent literacy and child development. Research has shown that preschool teachers with limited knowledge about literacy development are significantly less able to provide such experiences for children. Teachers will be better able to facilitate all of the components of emergent literacy if they have access to, and understanding of, a model that describes the components, their interactions, and the importance of environmental factors in supporting children.

【 授权许可】

CC BY