Impact of Early Learning on Literacy: A Review of Gee's Research

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Introduction:
The learning of the children at very primary stage of the childhood is a matter of
concern for every parents. The parents are observed to incorporate the basic learning of the
language to their children and the attempt is usually executed by the parents themselves. In
the modern generation, the competition is so high that the learning process of the children is
usually initiated at very early stage of their childhood and in order to prepare the children for
the school, the parents take significant part in the children’s early learning. The paper
evaluates the impact of a research which is able to connect the primary learning, learning
from the video games along with their literacy.
Discussion:
The paper is able to define the concept of the fourth-grade slump which is portrayed
as a phenomenon where the children learns enough to pass the early reading tests but fails to
read in school in order to learn the academic content. This specifies the ability to simply
decode and literal comprehension as the result of such early stage learning. Whereas the
study confirms that the goal of such early stage learning should have been the generation of
an ability which could handle increased amount of complex language in cases of the content
areas like science and math. The paper discusses that if a child is not subjected to a pattern of
study such as the fourth-grade slump, then the process of learning how to read is in need to
include preparation at a very early stage for the technical, academic and specialist forms of
the language and the forms are advised to be present in speech and writing in a justified
manner. The paper is able to rightfully mention the “lucidly functional language practices”,
“informal specialist language lessons” and the practices that simplifies the “situated
meanings” as the foundation of effective early preparation for the above mentioned forms of
the language. The study also acknowledges that these sort of practices are observed less in