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Roussea
Early education is natural. Children should have freedom to be curious and learn when they are ready. -
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Pestalozzi
Learning should be a combination of natural and informal elements, stressing all their senses. -
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Frobel
Created the term Kindergarten. Children grow like seeds if they are tended to -
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Reading Readiness
Nurturing children's maturity by teaching prerequisite skills for reading -
Montessori
Based on behaviorist theory and uses correcting materials -
Dewey
Child centered teaching with social interactions -
Emergent Literacy
There is an emphasis on social interaction. Adults should model literacy for the children. -
Jean Piaget
Believed there were different stages of cognitive development -
Vygotsky
Zone of Proximal Development -
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Constructivism and Whole-Language Approach
Natural and child centered approaches to learning -
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Explicit Instruction and Phonics or Sound-Symbol Relationships
Phonics: seems to be necessary
Exceptional teaching is the key to successful literacy instruction -
Balanced Comprehensive Approach
Careful selection of theories in practice in subjects like reading, writing, listening, speaking, spelling, and viewing -
Evidence Based Research and Public-Policy; National Reading Panel
5 main areas; phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency -
No Child Left Behind Act
Grants and money from the Federal Government -
National Early Literacy Panel Report
Says children should know and understand the letters and sounds and memory -
Common Core Standard
Differs state by state
Not a curriculum or method -
Read To Succeed; Act 284
Created to make sure students were prepared with the literacy skills they need to be successful