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= = This wikispace was created by Ellie McFarlane for the subject ECL210: Language and Literacy: The Early Years. This wikispace will demonstrate my understanding about the effective teaching of reading and writing in Prep to Grade 2.

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Through my regular attendance at lectures and tutorials, I have gained an understanding of the important and necessary aspects of teaching reading and writing that a teacher must focus on in the early year’s literacy program. Also, through weekly voluntary work in a Prep classroom, I have gained invaluable knowledge of how a classroom should be run and kept to encourage literacy skills amongst students. The Early Years Literacy Program is a daily two hour block that consists of one hour for reading and one hour for writing. It should ‘contain opportunities for language experience, shared book, guided reading, modelled writing, shared and guided writing and independent reading and writing’. (Hill, 2006, pg 88). Teachers should adopt a scaffolded approach to literacy, where they can model, share, and guide and encourage independence in reading and writing for students. (Hill, 2006, p 72.) Writing and Reading affect one another simultaneously. ‘Writing influences children’s reading as children have to slow down and think about written symbols when they are writing, and this helps them apply the symbols when they are reading.’ (Hill, 2006, p295).This why it is important for teachers to focus on each skill equally in teaching.

Hill, S. 2006, //Developing Early Literacy: Assessment and Teaching,// Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Prahran