This weeks main discussion was around early childhood literacy.

We learned that young children learn about books, print and writing long before they can read and write or going to school. This particular phenomena was defined as emergent literacy. This particular idea tells us that children develop gradually and that it does not happen in a day. It all starts from scribble to small words and later into sentences.

There are many indicators of emergent literacy development. Some of them are children starting to pretend read and write, listening and also producing a fictional narratives on their own.

This made me think about how I should view the grades ones in my practicum classroom with their literacy works. Should I correct most of their work or should I be selective in my correction?

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