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Functional Literacy Activities and Functional print in Preschool and First Grade!

By: Marina Fuga and Nicole Bulzacchelli

Literacy in Preschool

Functional Literacy in First Grade

My Fieldwork Placement: First Grade

Temple Hill Academy

why is literacy so important?

My Field Work Placement - Preschool

School Time Children's Center:

Functional Literacy in First Grade cont.

  • The Children find their names.
  • Teacher points to each letter and they have to say the sound and the name.
  • Then the teacher ask what does that spell?
  • Public School
  • Follows Common Core
  • Government paid breakfasts and lunches
  • Extremely multicultural
  • My class is a dual language class

Our Question

In "Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy" Vukelich says that literacy is closely tied to the total development of the child learning to think, to make sense of the world, and to get along with others.

  • Every morning the children grab their journals and write in them for 10 minutes. Even if it is just random letters, they are writing independently and using what they know and comprehend.
  • There is a read aloud every day, which is extremely important to strengthen children's reading abilities.
  • They go over "sight" read words with flashcards on the carpet.
  • Public/Private School
  • Follows common core
  • Some are able to go for free
  • Different backgrounds
  • Once kids are done with work, they have the opportunity to go to the carpet and pick an independent reading book.
  • Work on CVC words in morning work. Ex: d_g and it will have a picture and the child will have to fill in the missing vowel.

Visit a preschool or first grade classroom, and record the different types of functional literacy activities and the ways they are used in the classroom. How did the children respond to or use functional print within the classroom? Did the teacher refer to the functional print?

Why is print important?

Vukelich states how children

learn by observing. The print on

cereal boxes, parent's notes, and

newspapers allows children to learn and start making connections with objects and words.

So what is functional literacy and functional print?

Functional literacy is the training of adults to 'meet independently the reading and writing demands placed on them'. It is the cornerstone to a students' academic and possibly professional success.

Functional Print are the words and phrases that surround the classroom that help children succeed in reading and help them make the connections between words and objects.

Kids Helping Kids

Print in Preschool

In my first grade fieldwork class children are encouraged to help one another with reading, writing and math.

Preschool

Print in First Grade

How a first grade classroom should look like:

Kids can ask a "desk neighbor" for help if they are stuck on spelling or reading a specific word.

Apple Week!

The very first thing I noticed in the classroom

was everything was labeled, as we discussed in

class it is a very print rich classroom

This gives children a sense of independence as well as confidence in the classroom.

While they are bettering another child's skills they are also bettering their own.

In first grade they have a lot more detail

my class had mostly letters,

numbers 1-10, and calender station.

Everyone's names have a poster with

the first letter of their name.

  • Very similar to the preschool setting in the sense that the majority of things are labeled.
  • Children's names are everywhere with sentences they wrote and pictures they drew.
  • The words are printed big and colorful to catch the children's attention.
  • There are written schedules of the day with the times activities begin and end.
  • Kids get the chance to move magnet letters around and make their own words and sentences (in front of classroom for everyone to see).
  • Wall of vocabulary words that they have seen and heard in their read alouds.

  • First they had a read aloud. (It was about how apples grow) first a seed, then a bud, then a flower, and finally an apple.
  • Then they made apple hats together.
  • She modeled for the students how to do it.
  • prints of seeds buds, and flowers.
  • had to put them in order on their hats

What do you guys remember about learning literacy in first grade or preschool?

Repitition, Repitition, Repitition

Sources

Putting everything together!

ABC's with Pictures

Go Noodle!

Vukelich, Carol, James Christie, and Billie Enz. Helping Young Chidldren Learn Language and Literacy. Bosten, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2002. Print.

Temple Hill Academy

School Time Children's Center

  • The children in my first grade class are expected to write their name and the date on every paper they have to help them learn.
  • In order for this to work, the teacher has September written everywhere with the date to help children be able to look for, find, comprehend and then write it on their paper.
  • If she asks a child what the date is, she will ask another student to say it or point to the date in the room.
  • To have a successful child that reads,writes, and comprehends meaning stems from learning the building blocks at a young age.
  • Students with weak reading abilities are more likely to drop out of school and will not have the ability to be competitive in the job market.
  • Vukelich states the most important thing for a child's development is linking literacy and play, a print rich classroom, and always encouraging yours students.

Gonoodle.com is a website that my cooperating teacher uses to get the children's "brain sillies" out. What the kids don't know is that while they are dancing and following along with the words and games, they are learning literacy and print while having fun!

Does anyone remember their classrooms? Were they print rich?

Princess and Queen

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