Walden University Read-6706 Dr. Linda Holcomb by Edica Liebl

1. Early Literacy Environments
Edica Liebl
Read-6706
Dr. Linda Holcomb
Walden University

2. Getting to Know Emergent and Beginning
Literacy Learners
"Successful student readers must be motivated, of positive
attitude, of good self-concept, and capable of making accurate
attributions for their performances" (Afflerbach, 2007, p. 155).
• Effective Literacy Teachers know their students:
 Interest
• Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS)
 Instructional needs
• Oral Language vocabulary development
• Concepts of print
• Phonological & phonemic awareness
• Letter naming, sight word and phonics knowledge
• Listening comprehension

3. Text Selection
“Content rich instruction is important at all grade levels, and there are
many different types of text that support it” (Newman & Roskos, 2012).
• Predictable books
 Rhyming and repetitive word patterns
• Rhyming books
 Distinctive sounds
• Introduce storybooks
 Provide information about a topic in a story format
• Informational books
 Capture the interest and desire to learn

4. Text Selection
• Text complexity considerations
 Readability
• Sentence length
• Number of syllables
• Concept density
 Text length
 Text structure
• informational
• descriptive
• cause/effect
• problem/solution
• compare/contrast
• poetic
 Size of print
 Visual supports
(Laureate Education, 2014a)

5. Emergent Literacy Learners
Early Reading Developmental Process
Word Recognition
• Concepts of Print
• Letter knowledge
• Phonological/Phonics
awareness
• Fluent Reading
Comprehension Process
• Oral Language/vocabulary
development
• Comprehension strategies to
listen to text
• Reading vocabulary
• Comprehension Processing

6. Beginning Literacy Learners
A rich oral language base to develop phonemic awareness
and access for the kind of language needed to access text.
• 5 foundations of beginning literacy instruction
 Phonemic awareness
• the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-
phonemes--in spoken words.
 Alphabetic principal
• the understanding that words are made up of letters and letters
represent sounds.
 Fluency
• the ability to read a text accurately, quickly,
and with expression.
 Vocabulary
• the command of language.
 Comprehension
• the ability to read text, process it and understand
its meaning.

7. Emergent Literacy Lesson
• Systematic and Explicit Instruction
 Phonological Awareness
• manipulate sounds
• Words
• Syllables
• Rhyming elements in syllables
• Alliterations
– Breaking words into smaller parts
• Identifying sounds in words
• Blending sounds
• Segmentation of sounds
Phonological awareness is the basis for reading. Children learn to
recognize patterns among words and use this knowledge to read
and build words.

8. Beginning Literacy Lesson
• The primary objective in reading development with beginning
literacy learners is phonics awareness.
 Decoding
 Vocabulary instruction
• Concept sort
• Picture sorts
 Develop automatic sight words
 Higher level thinking
• close reads
 Fluency
• ability to read at a natural pace
 Comprehension
• the key to reading
 writing

9. References
• Afflerbach, P. (2012). Understanding and using reading assessments:
K–12 (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014a). Analyzing and selecting text
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014c). The beginning reader [Video
file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
• Laureate Education (Producer). (2014k). Getting to know your students
[Video file]. Baltimore, MD: author.
• Neuman, S. B., & Roskos, K. (2012). Helping children become more
knowledgeable through text. Reading Teacher, 66(3), 207–210.
• Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R, D. (2015). Teaching children to read: The
teacher makes the difference (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
• Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R. B. (2016). Strategies for reading
assessment and instruction: Helping every child succeed (5th
ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
• Stages of Reading Development. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://Readingrockets.org.
• University of Houston, College of Education. (2013). Educational uses
of digital storytelling. Retrieved from
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/index.cfm

10. Thank You For Viewing
Edica Liebl