As I read through the powerpoint presentation titled Strategies that Support Emergent Literacy I found myself relating to it a lot. My daughter is 2 years old and is in the Emergent literacy stage. Her speech is developing out of need to communicate with us and out of frustration when we don't always know what she is trying to tell us. She is able to recognize different print, her favorite being Chick-fil-A which she calls "moo cow" and she knows she eats chicken nuggets and fruit there. :) She loves for us to read books to her, but doesn't quite understand that we are reading the words on the page. She knows that letters are "abc's" but doesn't understand that those letters are put together to make words, sentences, or the story. My daughter loves to color or use chalk and her formations consist of scribble since she has no concept of the letter formations yet and the letters don't mean a whole lot to her.
I have never taught in a first grade classroom where many of the early reading stage is formed. I do know that the first grade teachers at my school have the sight word wall and go over those words daily. I think it would be interesting and valuable to spend time in a first grade classroom to see how these students move from emerging readers to early readers.
I really love that this power point addressed all the elements of reading. Since I teach 5th grade, my students are reading for meaning however, it is important for my students to be able to use phonological and phonemic awareness in order to decode unfamiliar words. Decoding however, can affect fluency if they spend too long decoding the word. When I taught 4th grade we actually used many nursery rhymes in our poetry unit and it saddened me that so many of our students didn't know many of the basic nursery rhymes we discussed throughout the unit.This is a strategy for improving phonemic awareness.
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