By Emmalisa Kaminski
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In these last few weeks as I have been writing my literacy narrative I have had to think a lot about one of the most fundamental pieces of my life. Literacy is the foundation for anything that we will ever learn as well as a way to escape from the harsh realities of the world that we live in. Sadly in places around the world literacy is something that is more often than not, placed on the backburner for things such as food, and work. Children in impoverished countries and areas all around the world, including within our own country are not receiving the literary education that they should be. Sometimes it falls on the teachers to make sure that the child is being provided with a literary education but really it is the responsibility of the parents to take the time out of their busy schedules to read to the child.
My advice to teachers would be to continue doing what they are doing. Teachers today have so many standards placed onto them by the state that they are in fact providing the child with a good basic literary education. However, if there is one thing that I think that teachers could do better for their students and encourage reading in their classroom, would either be an interactive story for the month, so that children can become accustomed to reading out loud in front of an audience, or be able to set aside a time where you could take students aside in groups and begin to have something along the lines of mini book clubs in your class. There are so many things that you can do for the children, so that they are able to build a positive relationship with literacy and books.
Perhaps the most important part about a literary education would have to be making sure that the child’s reading relationship is growing at home. It does not matter how hard the teacher might work to make sure that the child is receiving a good literary education, it is up to the parents to make sure that they are taking the skills that their child has learned during the day and cultivate and nurture them in the home. Whether that is having your child read to you as you are cooking dinner, or reading a story before bed time. If there is no literacy in the home than the likeliness of the child developing a healthy relationship with reading is going to be quite slim. Therefore, my advice to parents around the world is to make sure that you carve out time to be with your child and make sure that they are reading anything and everything that they can get their hands on.
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The final thing that I want to cover is that the children of today NEED literacy. It is something that in my opinion is slipping away into history. From all of the technology that is available today I see more kids playing Pokémon GO, or Clash of Clans than I see sticking their noses into a good book. Literacy is something that is going to help them throughout the rest of their lives; it is a skill that has to nurtured and cultivated by the people around the child. For the people that need to help cultivate it, you need to know that the rest of the child’s life is going to depend on what you teach them during these crucial years, for those families that live in impoverished countries or areas, go to someone and explain to them your situation and tell them that you want to be able to teach your children how to love reading. For the people that meet these parents crying out for help in educating their child, listen to their cries and answer them because these children are the future of our world. These children could be the next Nelson Mandela or Gandhi, but they will never be able to reach their full potential unless we help them.
I strongly agree with Emmalisa. Literacy is very important and children should be learning about it from a young age. For kids to be passionate about literacy they have to be taught about it from their teachers and parents. Emmalisa's advice for parents is a very important one and I think every parent should listen to that because it all starts at home.
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I agree with the authors opinion on literacy. I believe it is not pushed enough on to todays youth. Parents should be more than willing to help there kids become fast learners at a young age this could help their child school achievements in the future.Most kids play mobile games but if those games had comprehension questions it will not only be fun it will be learnable also.
ReplyDeleteTerry Crosby ENC 1101-10
I definitely agree that literacy is an essential part of a child's education. My mom is a teacher and has always been passionate about books and about reading to her classes. I also believe that literacy should begin at home. Parents should read nursery rhymes to their children and rhyming books to prepare them for literacy development. It begins at home and is then fostered by a teacher that inspires her students to read.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly hit this topic on the head. With all the technology that is at our fingertips today we do not seem to need literacy skills as much. Literacy is just slipping away from our generations to come. Instead of looking a word up in the dictionary we have "autocorrect" that may be convenient for now but when we are writing a paper on our own will not be there to help. Or instead of spelling our "talk to you later" we abbreviate it "ttyl". Which is again convenient, however, when you do it too often you tend to write the way you text. Take it from me, I do that way too often.
ReplyDeletei agree with this post. i think it's very important for kids to read on a consistent basis.it can't be stressed enough how important this is. the reading habits discussed in this post should be implemented in every young kid.
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