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Roussea
Believed that man was naturally good and corrupted by civilization. He also believed that education is natural and thought that there should be little adult intervention. -
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Pestalozzi
He believed in learning tat combines natural elements and informal instruction. He believed that children learn through their senses. His ideas led to education becoming democratic. -
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Frobel
He is the creator of the term kindergarten, meaning children's garden. He created circle time and believed that play was important for children. He designed a systematic curriculum. -
Vygotsky
Vygotsky believed that learning occurs aa children acquire new concepts. He believed that social interaction plays a critical role in a child's learning. -
Piaget
Believed there are different stages of development that kids go through. He discovered that kids reason and think differently at different times. -
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Reading Readiness
Reading Readiness is nurturing children's maturity by teaching prerequisite skills for reading. These skills include auditory discrimination, visual discrimination, visual motor skills, and large motor skills. Auditory discrimination is letter sounds/rhyming. Visual discrimination is colors, shapes, and letter recognition. Visual motor skills is cutting on a line/coloring within lines. Large motor skills is skipping, hopping, walking on a line. -
Montessori
Montessori believed that the teacher should be a guide in the classroom. She believed the students should be independent and learning at their own unique pace. -
Dewey
He believed that people learn through a "hands-on" approach. He believed students must interact with their environment to adapt and learn. He believed education should be child centered and involve play and the student's interest. He also believed that education should have a lot of social interaction. -
Marie Clay (Emergent Literacy Approach)
Belief that kids come to school with some background knowledge of literacy. Marie Clay believed in the child-centered approach. She also believed that children need adults to model literacy for them. -
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Phonics
Phonics has been taken in and out of the classroom. Research has shown that is seems necessary for phonics to be in the classroom and that kids do learn from putting a sound with the letter. Although, exceptional teaching is the real key to successful literacy, not the approach. -
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Whole Language Approach
This is a child-centered approach. It is believed that learning to read comes as naturally as speak develops. -
Balanced Comprehensive Approach
A belief that no single method of teaching will teach all students to read. Reading, writing, listening, speaking, spelling, and viewing. -
National Reading Panel
Phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. -
No Child Left Behind Act
Received money from the federal government. Its goal was to level the playing field for students in poverty or disadvantaged. -
National Early Literacy Panel Report 2008
Students should be able to know the letters and sounds of the alphabet, phonological awareness, can rapidly name letters and numbers, can write their name and letters, can remember what was said to them for a while, understands concepts about print, and can produce and comprehend spoken language. -
Common Core Standards
Common Core was actually started in 2007/2008. Common core is not a curriculum or method. It details what students throughout the US should know. Many states have written their own. -
Read to Succeed
Was created to address literacy performance in South Carolina and put in place 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.