1.1 Explain The Importance Of Early Literacy

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As a child grows up, literacy concepts, knowledge and skills are developed. Parents and teachers play an important role in helping children develop these skills by coming up with activities to promote literacy. All that is learned at a young age will predict what success the child will have in reading. There are three emergent literacy factors that are associated with later reading achievement. These include: phonological awareness, print awareness, and oral language. According to the National Reading Panel, phonological awareness is a predictor of achievements in reading. One of the early abilities of a child understanding phonological awareness is the understanding and producing of rhymes, and being able to sort words based on the sound at …show more content…
Lastly, oral language is also associated with the later reading achievement particularly in the area of reading comprehension. Activities for preschoolers should integrate phonological awareness and should be given to children daily. This is especially important for the children that are or could be at risk for a reading disability, as well as the children who have limited language opportunities at home. Some activities of oral language could include rhyming and alliterations. With both of these concepts, the child would need to start off easy and recognize if the words rhymes or if the words started with the same letter and so forth. Then as the child becomes proficient in recognition. They could start generating their own words that rhyme or begin with the same letter. Another oral language activity would be focused on focused stimulation. This would be an adult engaging conversation with a child using self-talk, parallel talk, repetitions, and