Aed202 Week 6 Assignment

Reading and Writing Development

AED 202

December 23, 2012

The differences between early childhood development (2-6yrs) in reading and writing are very different than early adolescence (10-14yrs). There are many activities in which a teacher can assign to both groups to help strength their skills while helping those students who may be behind for their age group. Teachers can put students into different groups according to their strengths and weaknesses during reading and writing. By doing this, the students who are behind can have easier reading and writing materials while more advanced students can still be challenged by receiving harder materials from the teacher.

Reading Differences between Early Childhood and Early Adolescence

Early Childhood (2-6yrs) | Early Adolescence (10-14yrs) |

* Reading material should be used in play activities. | * Automatized recognition of most common words |

* Knowledge of letters & letter-sound correspondences | * Ability to learn new information through reading |

* Identification of a few words in well-known contexts (e.g. words on commercial products) | * Emerging ability to go beyond the literal meaning of text |

* Use of words distinctive features (e.g. a single letter or overall shape) to read or misread it. | * Emerging metacognitive processes that aid comprehension (e.g. comprehension, monitoring, backtracking) |

(McDevitt & Ormrod, 2004)

Early Childhood (2-6yrs) | Early Adolescences (10-14yrs) |

* Increasing muscular control in writing and drawing | * Automatized spelling of most common words |

* Pseudo writing (e.g. wavy lines, connected loops) in preschool play activities | * Increasing use of expository forms of writing |

* Ability to write own name (perhaps at age 4) | * Use of longer and more complex syntactic structures |

* Invented spellings (at age 5-6) | * Reluctance to...