literacy timeline

  • Rousseau

    Jean- Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher, writer and composer in the 1700s. Emile (1762), was one of his works that recommended children develop as they are ready. He advocated for children to learn with freedom to be themselves. His philosophy suggests that there should be little adult intervention as possible for young children
    Children all have individual ways of learning , learn a lot through curiosity
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  • Pestalozzi

    Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a philosopher who believed in natural learning.Developed learning principles which combined natural elements with informal instruction. Pestalozzi believed that it was unrealistic to expect children to learn to read on their own and instead teachers should create the conditions in which the reading process grows. Suggested that children develop through sensory manipulative experiences.
  • Froebel

    Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
    Also believed in the natural unfolding of a child like Pestalozzi
    Stressed the importance of play in learning and felt that the benefits of playing to learn required adult guidance and a planned environment.Designed playful activities that facilitates learning and was the first educator to design a systematic curriculum for young children by including object and materials .Many of his strategies are used in classroom today.
  • Standardized testing

    The term reading readiness became popular as skills began to identify how much the student was capable of knowing and learning.
  • Montessori

    Believed that children needed early, orderly, systematic training in order to master skills. She created an environment supplied with materials for learning concepts to meet specified objectives. These materials utilized children's five senses.
  • Piaget- Cognitive Development

    The theory of cognitive development describes the intellectual capabilities of children at different stages of cognitive development A child acquires knowledge by interacting with world.
  • Vygotsy

    Theory that suggests that learning occurs as children acquire new concepts. The new concepts are considered schema, which are mental structures where people store information.
  • Balanced Comprehensive Approach

    No single method or single combination of methods can teach all children to read.
    Careful selection of the best theories and reached based in practices
    Reading, Writing, Listening ,Speaking, Spelling, and Viewing
  • Evidence Based Research and Public Policy: National Reading Panel

    Phonemic Awareness (individual sounds are in words)
    Phonics (sound-symbol relationships)
    Vocabulary (learning the meaning of words in order to understand what is read)
    Comprehension (being able to understand what is read)
    Fluency (reading with expression and appropriate speed)
  • No Child Left Behind

    Reading First Grants, money from the federal govt
  • Evidence Based Research and Public Policy: National Early Literacy Panel Report

    Know the letters and sound of the alphabet
    Phonological awareness
    Can rapidly name letters and numbers
    Can write their name and letters
    Can remember what was said to them for a while
    Concepts about Print
    Can produce or comprehend spoken language
  • (2011)

    Work was started in 2007/2008
    Not a curriculum or method
    Many states have written their own
  • Integrated Language Arts Approach

    Themes are studies through various genres and education took on multiple approaches. Skills began to be thought of meaningful and useful instead of for a test.
  • Read to Succeed

    Read to Succeed legislation, was created in 2015 to address literacy performance in South Carolina and put in place a comprehensive system of support to ensure SC students graduate on time with the literacy skills they need to be successful in college, careers and citizenship. Act 284 provides for a strong assessment and intervention system for students kindergarten through twelfth grade with a goal of all students becoming proficient readers by the end of third grade.

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