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Learning to Read: Where Should Early Childhood Educators Begin?
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Nicholas, Maria; Rouse, Elizabeth – Literacy, 2021
Learning to read is a process that begins well before children commence formal schooling and well before children learn to decode print. Children's early reading skills are, first and foremost, foundationally contingent upon children's oral language and phonological awareness proficiencies -- skills that can be mapped across a continuum of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Preschool Children
Reading for Pleasure: Exploring Reading Culture in an Australian Early Years Classroom
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Vanden Dool, Carly; Simpson, Alyson – Literacy, 2021
Research indicates a powerful correlation between students' reading enjoyment, motivation and achievement. This Australian case study investigates how reading for pleasure (RfP) approaches are demonstrated in the teaching of reading in a Stage 1 (6-year-old to 7-year-old students) classroom. The methodology was designed to mirror aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, Early Childhood Education, Reading Instruction
Pedagogy for Reading for Pleasure in Low Socio-Economic Primary Schools: Beyond 'Pedagogy of Poverty'?
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Hempel-Jorgensen, Amelia; Cremin, Teresa; Harris, Diane; Chamberlain, Liz – Literacy, 2018
New research findings are presented in this paper, responding to a significant knowledge gap about the role of pedagogy in tackling persistent educational inequalities. The paper examines the potential of reading for pleasure (RfP) pedagogy to disrupt 'pedagogy of poverty' in low socio-economic (SES) schools and to enable children to reap the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Education, Recreational Reading