Understanding Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Education

This assignment delves into the crucial domains of language and literacy development in early childhood education. It defines language and literacy, emphasizing their interconnectedness and significance. The assignment presents a detailed layout of a learning corner, outlining the materials, resources, and organization of different areas like reading, speaking, listening, and writing. It also addresses safety considerations within the learning environment. Furthermore, it reflects on the teacher's role, highlighting the importance of observation, adapting teaching methods, and creating creative activities to cater to individual learning needs. Finally, the assignment explores strategies for incorporating parents and the community into the language arts curriculum, such as inviting parents to read stories or share professional experiences to enrich the children's learning.

Running head: UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
Understanding language and literacy
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Question 1:
Literacy and language development are the two major domains of the early childhood
development. Both these involve the development of skills that are required to communicate with
others (language development) as well as it includes the ability to write and read (literacy
development). For example, the literacy and language development during the childhood
includes speaking in native language of parents and at the same time read the basic words in the
same language (Roskos, 2017). Therefore, it is important to define both the language and literacy
so that their importance can be understood. Development of language takes place when children
interacts with the other people around them. Moreover, a baby will quickly learn words that are
connected with the people or object and words that specifically produce certain response from
others. similarly, literacy develops when child experiences from the interaction with others. Due
to this literacy can develop by hearing stories read from the books that clearly shows the pictures
along with the words (Street, 2014).
Question 2:
a. Materials and resources that will be provided in the learning corner are print rich wall so that
photos can be pinned on to the walls and this will help in decorating the parts of the wall with
pictures, alphabets and sceneries; the white board is located in the writing area and it will house
the chairs and tables where the children will sit down to practice writing. The white board will be
used by the teacher during the teaching activities. The material shelves in this room will serve as
a place for keeping books and other stuffs. The listening is will have the radio, headphone and
couches for the children so that they can sit and have a comfortable listening place. This area will
also have a material shelves for keeping extra headphones and stuffs. The speaking room is
designed like a small auditorium and chairs are arranged in a way so that everyone can view the

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person standing on the mini stage. This room will also have the material shelves. The reading
area will also have the books on the mat along with small sofa pillows on the floor so that
children can study from the books with ease. On both sides of the reading area books shelves will
be placed so that extra books can be kept.
b. The learning corner has been planned in an effective way and there is a total of four rooms that
have serve different purpose. The four different rooms are reading area, speaking area, listening
area and writing area. It is important to mention that each of the rooms are spacious and have the
properly organized furniture and technological gadgets that can aid the learning of the children.
The storage spaces are also properly organized in each and every room so that the study
materials specific to a room is put inside the storage spaces. It is important to mention that each
and every room provides an altogether different kind of learning experience for the children. The
storage spaces are exclusive and the storage spaces are made according to the needs of a specific
room.
c. The safety consideration is a major issue when it comes to the safety of the children in a
learning corner or a class. It is important to mention that safety is a major concern for the
children that will be studying in a learning corner. Therefore, from the sketch itself it can be said
that there are no sharp objects, no tangled wires on the floor and on the table. However, it is
important to note that the in the listening room there might be an issue of wire tangling on the
table and on the table. The writing area has a lot of chairs and tables that hinders the movement
of the children in the room. Other than this, all the rooms are neat and clean when it comes to the
design elements and cleanliness.

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Figure 1: Sketch of learning area (done by author)
Question 3
The role of a teacher is this scenario will include the proper teaching and delivering
education to the children. The role of a teacher is vital here and it says that the language learning
needs will be highly including the aspects of observation over the children that are trying to learn
language and speak in the same language. It is important to mention that the learning is always
effective if the children listen and write the same stuff repeatedly. The visual memory of the
children is always highlighting and it helps in building long term memory and enhancing the
learning power. It is a vital part of the teaching process to emphasize on and every aspects of

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language learning and using the same language to speak a given set of words. The different types
of the rooms are specifically designed so that it can cater to the learning needs of the children.
The listening area and the writing area are the two best areas where the children can learn and
hear to the specific words and help in the development of the child literacy. The specific areas
provide enough room to observe each and every child so that they can have a gaining learning.
The writing room explicitly can promote creativity and among the children and the creative work
can be promoted within the child.
Question 4
parents can be exclusively included into the language arts curriculum by inviting the
parents into the school so that they can read the story books and the share the stories they have
found in the story book. On the other hand, the if the parents are into the professionals that are
more of a civil service. Then the parents can share their stories related with their professions to
the children. This will help the students to develop a sense of real events. The speaking area can
be utilized to tell stories.

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Reference
Roskos, K. A. (Ed.). (2017). Play and literacy in early childhood: Research from multiple
perspectives. Routledge.
Street, B. V. (2014). Social literacies: Critical approaches to literacy in development,
ethnography and education. Routledge.