Emergent Reader

and Emergent
Writer
Lesson 3

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Learning Objectives:
•Describe emergent reader and
emergent writer
•Discriminate the different view
about reading
•Identify the factors which determine
the development of emergent
reader and emergent writer
Characteristics of an Emergent
Reader
WHAT IS EMERGENT READING?
Emergent reading pertains to the first
stage in a child’s growth toward literacy.
This stage relates to the beginning
experiences or the child’s first
experiences with print in the home and
continues until the early years of formal
schooling.
Characteristics of an
Emergent Reader
• Harris and Hodges (1981) refer to this
period as a time in acquiring the specific
skills and abilities that allow reading to
take place as preparedness of reading
readiness (set of social, emotional,
physical, and cognitive competencies).
• This stage is determined by a complex
pattern of intellectual, motivational, and
experiential factors.
REALITY. .
• Children pass through stages at different
levels of maturity; hence, emergent
reading is NOT determined at a particular
age.
• NOT all children pass through the stages
of reading, all at the same time and in the
same order. In short, each child is
identified as an individual emergent
reader developing at their own pace and
rate.
Stages of the Reading Process
• The basic and progressive stages of
reading generally serve as a guide
in determining the reading skills of a
particular child or of a whole class.
• But since not all children pass
through the similar stage, they can
be identified in terms of readiness,
skills, and own pace.
 Marie Clay’s (1991) and
Fountas and Pinnell’s (2001)
Stages of Literacy
Development
Stage 1: Emergent Readers
• Generally ranges from 2-7 years
old
• They begin to familiarize themselves
with the concepts of print related to
directionality, one-to-one
correspondence between the
spoken and written word, and the
value of picture clues to the
meaning of the story.
Stage 1: Emergent Readers
• They also develop an
understanding that the printed word
carries the main meaning of the
story.
• They begin to make text-to-world
connections and may be able to
extend on what is written on the
page.
Stage 2: Early Readers
• Ages between 5-7 years old
• They rely heavily on the printed text
than pictures in a book.
• They begin to develop word
recognition strategies such as
monitoring, searching,
crosschecking, and self-correction.
Stage 2: Early Readers
• They begin to develop a data bank
of sight words that allows them to
read with increased speed.
Stage 3: Transitional Readers
• Ages between 5-7 years old
• They make the leap into fluent
reading as they are generally able to
read in meaningful phrases with
comfortable pace and appropriate
voice intonation.
• They can read long texts and there is
little reliance on pictures.
Stage 4: Self-extending Readers
• Often ranges from 6-9 years old
• They often read a variety of textual
genres and use reading as a tool for
gaining new knowledge or building
upon existing knowledge.
• They can read complex texts.
Stage 5: Advanced Readers
• Over the age of 9
• They are proficient readers who can
comprehend various text sources.
• They are fluent readers and can
interpret texts at both concrete and
inferential level.
Stage 5: Advanced Readers
• They can connect what they have
read to themselves, to other texts,
and to the world around them.
SYNTHESIS:
Learning how to read
depends upon the
readiness of the learner.
Characteristics of an
Emergent Writer
• Ideally, a learner should already
acquire considerable information about
writing before they enter formal
instruction.
• Their emergent writing is characterized
by playful markings to communicate.
This develops thru constant invention
and reinvention of forms.
Characteristics of an
Emergent Writer
• The child’s experimentation with
writing allows him to construct and
refine the kind of knowledge about
written language that makes
reading possible.
• Thus, as a child writes, he/she
integrates knowledge of reading
with knowledge of writing.
 Stages of Writing
Development
Sulzby, Barnhart and Heisima (1985)
 Stages of Early Literacy
Learning
(Cooper and Kiger, 2001)
 READING INDEPENDENCE OF A LEARNER

Note: This also goes with writing independence.

SYNTHESIS:
Learning how to read
DOES NOT only depend
upon the readiness of the
learner, but also to the
concern of the adults
around him/her.