Throughout my years working with low income children and families, I have become very passionate about promoting literacy and how important is to read to their children. I make sure families become aware of the activities happening in their local library, getting them a library card if needed, providing literacy workshops at our centers by inviting a lady from the community to talk about the topic, etc. I think is so important or families to understand that if they can spend at least twenty minutes a day just one on one looking and talking about a book to your child, it will help their language and vocabulary skills. I have worked very closely with my Latino families and having them understand how important it is to spend time with your kids, many times I got responses such as: I don't have time, he does not sit, I have to take care of the house, he gets read at home, and many more excuses. One thing I share with them is that I use to say that because I did not know any better, I was a young mom, no experience or support and bad relationship. Many of the times I am able to relate to their stories, but it is why I will promote how important and its benefits for their children.
My research will be to study the importance of spending a minimum of twenty minutes either reading, looking, sharing stories with your child and compare their increase of bonding, increase of vocabulary. I would do it as a longitudinal study.
Sharing the positive results and outcomes will be such an important asset to help families get educate on how they can help their child from early years.
Hello Ana, great post and I agree with you that a positive results and outcomes will be such an important asset to help families get educate. I do believe that education is power and knowledge for a successful future. Sophia
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post! Literacy is important in early learning. It is important for parents to read to the baby while in the womb and when he or she comes out the womb. Children will love and/or develop a love for reading when they see that their parents are excited about the process. The process of literacy has a major impact in other developmental and academic areas. Therefore, it is important to introduce the concept of literacy to children early on in life.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good post! Ana literacy is something I really don't hear a lot of people talk about too much anymore. I mean it is very important, but I remember when I was growing up, and it was the Big focal point of school- it was SOOOOO important. We talked about the importance of being literate, and like you said we were encouraged to check out books, and to let our parents read to us. We also always had a speaker to come by our school to read books to us and always tell us how we could improve our vocabulary. There are a lot of people that talk about it, but I really do not feel like it is as important(meaning being promoted) today as it was years ago. I am so glad that there are educators like you that continue to promote this topic, and do your part to encourage young children and also to get them excited about reading, because 'Reading is Fun' Again this was a great post.
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