Reading Plan for Early Learners

This assignment details the implementation of a reading plan for a group of 10 children aged 5-14, who are learning English as a second language. The text used was 'JB Gets Ready for School' by William Ziegler. The plan emphasizes the value of home languages (Spanish and French) and incorporates activities that explore symbols, patterns, relationships between letters and sounds, and use puppets to stimulate enjoyment. The assignment highlights the importance of translating texts, using visuals, and engaging children in interactive play to support their learning.

Conduct a Reading Plan

Learning Story
a. Which text did you use for reading JB Gets Ready for School by William Ziegler
b. How manty children were in the group 10
c. What was the age group of children you
read to?
5-14
d. What were the home language of the
children and how did you value and
encourage use and acquisition of home
language?
Spanish and French were the native language
of the learners and English is considered the
second language. The school value an
inclusive environment where all students are
appreciated and welcomed for leadership
abilities and strengths they come to the
learning centre. The school encourage
children speak their home language in the
early childhood service so that child’s home
language and their culture can be valued.
Various initiatives have been adopted such as
play games from the different countries
represented in the setting, appropriate
greetings and key phrases using the
languages, and teach songs and rhymes,
letters and numbers in the child’s home
language.
How was this text appropriate to the
development level of the children?
The text was short with different sounds and
pictures making the students understand about
English grammar and vocabulary. This text
was translated to their home language with
different pictures were used to grow their
interest. Group play also have been
encouraged to encourage their group learning

and communication.
How the reading encouraged children to
explore symbols, patterns and their
relationships in the environment?
The reading also had included different
patterns, figures and symbol matching with
the story and characters. This had encouraged
their participation and relationships with the
learning environment.
How did you discuss relationship between
letters and sounds?
Through interesting activities and reinforcing
sounds and changing the letters and change eh
sounds and words. To enrich environment,
labels, captions, and other print have been
used wherever they serve a purpose
List and describe how puppets and other
props were incorporated into the reading to
stimulate the child’s enjoyment
Puppets represented as their friend talk.
Puppets further were used to tell stories,
scenarios, and creative ways to solve
problems. Use of labels and captions for
capital letters, illustrations, rhyming words.
Read a book with very repetetive text and
pictures and figures.