Promoting Constructive Early Childhood Learning
Reading:
Literacy Beginnings: A PreKindergarten Handbook, Fountas and Pinnell (2018)
- Chapter 1: Growing Up Literate: PreKindergarteners for the Future Generation
- Chapter 2: Building a Community of Learners
- Chapter 3: Promoting Constructive Learning: Engaging Children in Inquiry
- Chapter 4: An Organized, Engaging Environment for Learning
- Chapter 5: Using a Framework for Language and Literacy Teaching
-Is play a privilege or a right? And what’s our responsibility? On the role of play for equity in early childhood education, Mariana Souto-Manning (2017)
After having read all the readings for the course session Early Literacy, Talk, and Play + Assessments and respond to 4 out of 6 questions below that synthesizes the main ideas of the texts selected (using 200-300 words).
1. What from the readings resonated with you most?
2. What were the clearest or muddiest points of the readings?
3. What did you learn from the readings? Use key vocabulary, examples, and terms from the text.
4. What quote(s) from each reading was/were most meaningful to you? Why?
5. How do these readings connect to your personal practice?
6. How will these readings help you become a better early childhood professional/educator?
Promoting Constructive Early Childhood Learning
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Question 1
The idea that resonates with me the most from the reading is the role of the teacher in promoting constructive early child hood learning. As the Russian psychologist Vygotsky pointed out, the teacher has a critical role to play at the child’s zone of proximal development. Therefore, teachers must ensure they provide the right opportunities and experiences for each child’s unique pattern of growth and development.
Question 2
The first clearest point from the readings is that children learn how to interpret symbols and then build a literacy processing system. Second, children have different learning zones caused by different backgrounds, personalities, experiences, abilities, and interests. Third, a hig...
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