Literacy Timeline

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    In 1762, He wrote Émile and it was about children learning when they are ready. He suggested children at a young age learn with minmum adult interaction.
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    Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

    He created principles for children to learn naturally but with some instruction. He realized children need some instruction to learn. You can not expect a child to learn without some guidence.
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    Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel

    He belived there is an importance in playing for learning. He belived children should have instruction, but also natural learning.
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    "Reading Readiness"

    Reading readiness was used to help turn children into readers, instead of waiting for them to be ready. Teachers used skills to help students. The skills are auditory discrimination, visual discrimination, visual motor skills, and large motor skills.
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    The Research Era

    Early childhood literacy was studied. It was studied in a variety of places. They studied in homes and schools.
  • Maria Montessori

    Montessori used childrens five senses to teach. Behaviors were modeled by the teacher, and then students repeated it. Montessori also belived children need early and orderly training to master a skill.
  • Progressive Education

    John Dewey belived in child-centered curriculum. It is also called progressive education. It should be made to let children learn in the real world and should keep the interests of the children.
  • Emergent Literacy

    Marie Clay used the term Emergent Literacy. Children learn about reading, writing, and language before coming to school. There are programs for different levels.
  • DISTAR

    This stands for Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading. It is a reading program is based on a behavior method. It was created by Englemann and Bruner.
  • Jean Piaget

    His theory of cognitive developement describes what intellectual capability children have at different stages of life. The four stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operations. He believed children learned real-world experiences.
  • High Scope

    It is a preschool curriculum that has Piaget's theories. It included language developement, classifying, seriating, different modalities, and spatial relations.
  • Lee S. Vygotsky

    His theory suggests children get schema or learn new concepts. We use this new information later in life.
  • Balanced Comprehensive Approach

    There is not a single method that can teach all children to read.
  • National Reading Panel

    There is evidence based research that phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency are important.
  • No Child Left Behind

    The Federal Government and reading first grants funded educational programs to help children read.
  • National Early Literacy Panel Report

    It is evidence based research that includes phonological awareness, knowing the letters and sounds of the alphabet, and students can write the letters and their names.
  • Common Core Standards

    It is not a method, and in 2007 Common Core Standards were in the process of being produced.
  • Read to Succeed

    It is Act 281, and was created to adress literacy preformance in South Carolina. It has a support system to help students. The goal is for all students to be proficient readers by the end of the third grade.
  • Works Cited

    Morrow, Chapter 2