Insight about Early Emergent Literacy

I base the learning capability of the child on the parent's willingness and decision. If the parents have the desire to teach the child, it will learn day by day. But if the parent does not have any intension to teach the Child. The child will force himself to explore with its own curiosity. Early Emergent Literacy is necessary to apply, especially to the infant and early childhood. Because it builds relationships and experiences which can help them improve and embrace their mind on the environment and self-awareness. The more we put the child on something important to learn and teaching them with full support. It will increase their trust and interest. Example: bringing the child to the outside world while introducing objects, sounds, gesture, signs, action, and symbols. The Early Emergent Literacy have 7 strategies which define the ideas on how to enhance the child’s learning and manage the progress from low to high strategy of learning.

The first strategy is the Modeling reading and writing behaviors where in you let the child know your teaching such as reading, writings and signing. Describing your work as you read and write. The more the child interact with the materials such as books, pencil, and paper. The more it will have an interest in reading and writing. The child should feel, see, hear, touch as you read and write. The second strategy is the Embed the use of objects, symbols, or words throughout the child's day where in you train the child to be more familiar in objects and symbols daily. It should have a routine for enhancing the awareness of the child in the environment. Example: If you go outside with the child. Start labeling the object in the child’s environment using actual objects such as flowers, stones, sky, and more. Teach the child to be more flexible in the social interaction and knowing that the people exist where they have purpose and meanings. Boost the child's knowledge by engaging them with materials. See them if their response has meaning to the activities. The third strategy is Incorporate rhythm, music, finger plays and mime games. play with the child using music or the child play something while listening to the music and start singing, then add some vibrations and movement to the activities to increase the interest and willingness of the child. Take advantage when the child is expecting something to happen, for example: (incoming rain, bus line). The fourth strategy is Provide opportunities for handling and exploring reading and writing materials. This strategy aims the child learns from the materials such as books, magazine, and writing materials for deep exploration of knowledge. Establish a consistent place for materials, therefore the child can access independently. make sure that the format is easy to understand by the child, to avoid boredom and less- interesting content. because the patience of a child is less and easily to distract. the fifth strategy is Teach print and book awareness. this strategy is more complex rather than the previous strategies. because it requires the child to know the different parts of the book. The child should learn from matching the pictures to words. the way to boost the influence of the child in the books is to have an investment time to go to library. helping them to acknowledge the essence of the books. The sixth strategy is Teach name, name sign and/or personal identifier of child and those the child interacts with regularly. It focuses to the child's name to be more familiarizes to the child. especially when someone interacts with her/him. The child must know the person by name, those who interact with her/him and let them realize that every person who comes to them is part of their life. Another part is always calling the name in daily activities. The last strategy is Embed literacy learning activities into routines. It must train the child for daily activities in home or classroom, by teaching them to identify their roles in any areas of the community. let them work with your guidance to do accomplished and finish some task example: let them help you to gather things to set up an activity. always bring materials such as tangible symbols and present it when engage in activities. 

In conclusion, the child must gain this strategy in early stages because it is an investment to themselves and it can benefit to the parents and teacher to easily control their learning. These strategies are useful especially to the parents and teachers because it provides ideas on how to control the knowledge of the child and make them prosper in any aspects of the society. It takes slow but worth it. They learned day by day with a proper way of teaching and in the end of the day. They will realize the essence of progress.