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 Linking Literacy with Social-Emotional Development
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Linking Literacy with Social-Emotional Development
Lori Connors-Tadros, Ph.D.
Technical Assistance Specialist for Literacy
National Child Care Information Center
Tweety Yates, Ph.D.
Co-Project Coordinator
Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
Southern Stories: Literacy Traditions for Young Children
May 7, 2003
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Child Development Research
Key Findings:
- How young children feel is as important as how they think, particularly with regard to school readiness.
- Emotional development occurs on a parallel path to early literacy development in the context of positive relationships.
Source: From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
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Language, Literacy, and Social- Emotional Development
- Hearing words allows a baby to self regulate.
- Saying words allows a toddler to self regulate.
- Expressing ideas helps a preschooler to self regulate.
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What is Emergent Literacy?
- The Emergent Literacy perspective emphasizes the gradual acquisition of literacy via formal and informal mechanisms from infancy to school age.
- Literacy develops along a continuum, ranging from pre-reading to reading skills.
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What is Emergent Literacy?
- Oral language
- Phonological awareness
- Print Knowledge
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What is Social- Emotional Development?
- The developmentally and culturally appropriate ability to:
- Manage Emotions
- Relate to Adults
- Relate to Peers
- Feel Good About Self
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How are they interrelated?
- ".We have found that emotional and intellectual development cannot be separated; that these two functions come together as the child actively explores the emotional, social, and cognitive challenges at each of these stages." Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
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Social-Emotional Development: A Pathway to Successful Reading
Children are more likely to learn important cognitive skills when they:
- are confident;
- can persist at tasks; and
- can engage in interactions with other children and adults.
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Oral Language
- Children learn new words by hearing them read (receptive vocabulary).
- When an adult explains the word to the child he/she begins to internalize the meaning and will use the word in his/her speech (expressive vocabulary).
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Quality of Words
- The kinds of words that children hear are important:
- Rare words, sustained conversation
- Complexity of sentence structure
- The tone of the words that children hear is important.
Source: Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experiences of Young American Children
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Second Language Learners
- The quality of the interaction, not the language of the interaction, promotes very young children's interest and ability to communicate in meaningful ways.
- A strong foundation in language and lots of exposure to literacy activities is the key to ensuring all children are ready for school.
Source: Handbook of Early Literacy Research
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Phonological Awareness
- Is the ability to distinguish between units of sound or to identify rhyming words.
- Songs, rhyming games, and word play support children's phonological development.
- These activities also support children's social-emotional development.
Source: Scientist in the Crib: What early learning tells us about the mind
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Print Knowledge
Alphabetic principle
- The alphabet
- Relationship between letters and sounds
Concepts about print
- Reading left to right
- Print on a page corresponds to words in a sentence
- Language related to books - title, author, illustrator
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Indicators of School Success
Social Development
Emotional Development
Literacy Development
Ready for School
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Reading Aloud
"The single most important activity for building [literacy] understandings and skills essential for reading success appears to be reading aloud to children."
Source: What Research Reveals
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- Reading aloud builds children's literacy skills when children are engaged in the activity.
- Children who are more engaged during reading aloud are more motivated to read and have better literacy skills.
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- Children are also more engaged when they have a positive relationship with the adult who is reading to them.
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Source: Handbook of Early Literacy Research
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Storytelling
- Storytelling offers an opportunity to support children's social-emotional development by building self-esteem and giving legitimacy to cultural practices and traditions.
- Children's understanding of storytelling contributes to their vocabulary development and understanding of story forms (beginning, middle, end).
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Recommendations
- We should not debate the relative importance of language/literacy development and social-emotional development.
- They are interdependent and interrelated such that it is not possible to focus on one without focusing on the other.
- Our focus should be on learning opportunities that integrate social-emotional and language and literacy development.
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Thank you!
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