Reading Plan: Children's Book: Language and Literacy

This assignment analyzes a reading plan based on the children's book "JB Gets Ready for School." The assignment explores various aspects, including the target age group of 5-14 years old children, the use of English as a second language alongside home languages such as Spanish and French, and the value of an inclusive environment. It assesses how the book's structure and illustrations support language and vocabulary development, and how group play enhances learning and communication. The plan incorporates the use of puppets, labels, and repetitive text to stimulate interest and understanding of sounds, letters, and relationships between words. The reading plan also emphasizes activities that help children understand the relationship between letters and sounds to enrich their learning experience.

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.