TIP Ch. 5,6,7

In chapter five i thought the stage models of reading was interesting. I was surprised to learn it was not until the 1980s that educators interested in the development of reading ability began to prose different models regarding the stages through which readers pass as they move toward reading proficiency (pg 82).
It was so hard to believe that it was not until then that people wondered how the reading process works and develops. The first stage of reading is called the logographic method, which means a child uses visual aspects such as pictures and colors to connect a word to it.
The second stage is called alphabetic stage this is when the alphabet is being learned and the child is learning to apply some letters to a word.
The third stage deals with orthographic stage which means the students is developing word families or phonograms. Family literacy was also interesting because it is thought that relationships between families and the development of literacy are connected. A home with a rich reading environment before the students enters school, helps the kids understand reading much better. Chapter five as a whole was very interesting because it defined all the important theories used in explaining a students literacy development.
Chapter six was interesting as well because it examined the social aspects of literacy. I learned a new word “sociolinguistic”. Which is a theory that uses several different theories holding social activities and interesting are the key to development of knowledge and learning. Bloom and Green, two sociolinguistic theorist, write that as a social process, reading is used to establish, structure, and maintain social relationships and among people. To these theorists, social language is the foundation in which children learn to read. I found this REALLY important when speaking on reading. Because I think about when I was younger, the first words I learned to read were the ones I spoke most frequently. When I have my own classroom someday, I feel social learning is the best way to learn not only for reading but for all subjects Because social learning especially with reading stresses the role of the persons language in reading acquisitions and reading ability. The classroom applications were interesting because it was then when the reader can see how to put worth the theory in the lessons taught. For example the social learning theory had a language experience chart based on a story that the class wrote together.
There was a question that states "what do i know about reading"? Just in this week alone i have learned so many different ways to apply theory into your classroom as well as understanding that reading is So important, but so hard to teaching. I am so excited to read more about literacy and learn more clever ways inwhich to make it interesting to my students.