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Rousseau Birth
Believed early education should be natural.
Children should learn through curiosity with little adult intervention. -
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Literacy Timeline
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Pestalozzi Birth
Combined natural learning with informal instruction.
Used sensory manipulative experiences to teach students. -
Froebel Birth
Promoted natural learning.
Created circle time and the term, "kindergarten," meaning “children’s garden." -
Reading Readiness
Educators focused on nurturing children's maturation through instruction in skills seen as prerequisites for reading. -
The Research Era Begins
Researchers investigating early childhood literacy development brought about many changes in practice. This era ran from the 1960's to the 1980's. -
Montessori
Used manipulatives to teach specific skills.
Believed children should learn by using their five senses. -
Dewey
Believed in progressive education with a child-centered curriculum. -
Emergent Literacy Perspective
A child-centered approach where social interaction and problem solving are emphasized with less direct instruction of skills. -
Piaget
Created the Theory of Cognitive Development.
Believed children learn through interacting with the world. -
Vygotsky
Learning occurs as children acquire new concepts, or schema.
Created scaffolding and the zone of proximal development. -
Research Era Ends
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Whole-Language Instruction
Supports the constructivist perspective and natural approaches to learning. Literacy learning is child-centered and based on a child's life experiences -
Explicit Instruction and Phonics
As children begin to experiment with reading and writing, they need to focus on the sounds that make up words. -
Balanced Comprehensive Approach
No single method or single combination of methods can successfully teach all children to read. -
National Reading Panel (Evidence Based Research and Public Policy)
Phonemic awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency -
No Child Left Behind
Reading First Grants. Money from the federal government. -
National Early Literacy Panel Report (Evidence Based Research and Public Policy)
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Common Core Standards (Evidence Based Research and Public Policy)
A public policy, not a curriculum or method -
Read to Succeed
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.