Portfolio 1.1 & 4.2

 Portfolio 1.1 & 4.2

 

This portfolio is an example of the importance of ‘anchored’ relationships and how playing together experiences impact on emergent literacy development. Lily is three years old. She attends Day Care three days a week and is at home with her Mum on the other days except Tuesdays when her Dad has a day off. She is really social and loves meeting and interacting with people of all ages.

Lily has strong ‘anchored’ relationships with her grand-parents, aunties and uncles. Lily loves stories, and is familiar with characters and plot in simple stories like ‘Hattie and the Fox’, Where is the Green Sheep’ and Little Red Riding Hood.

Lily is developing emergent literacy skills. She shows signs of print knowledge. She points to text and is starting to track print and will willingly finish the sentence or take on character parts that she knows by heart.

Recently, whilst sorting picture puzzles, her Nanna casually pointed out the ‘curly c’, made the shape with her hand and told her what sound it makes. Lily immediately repeated the sound and went about matching more of the picture pieces. She recognised that once the four segments of the picture were completed, a word was formed. She looked at the picture and the word and used the picture to identify the word.

Once Lily had assembled about 10 of the puzzles, her Nanna asked her which puzzles started with the ‘curly c.’ Lily quickly scanned the puzzles and named the three –car, cow and cup.

Four days later, nanna received a text message from Lily’s Dad, ‘watch what happens when Lily pushes the letter ‘c’ In the video short clip, Lily is playing on her Dora Explorer laptop with an alphabet recognition program. She has pushed the letter c and the automated American voice says c (see) c (see) c (see) Lily can be seen telling the computer ‘no it’s the curly c’. She becomes increasingly assertive and moves closer to the screen to assert her new understanding, evidence of how she has used the information that Nanna gave her to build on her existing schema.

Cathy Stanbury

 

Attaching is video recording with permission from parents.