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The Change in Approach to Preparing Children to Learn to Read and Write

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Jagiełło E., Klim-Klimaszewska A.

Multidisciplinary Journal of School Education

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2016

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issue 9

71-88

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Readiness to learn to read must be shaped at the level of preschool education. One of the innovative methods of teaching pre-school children to read is the natural language teaching method developed by Wenda Pye. The programme consists in the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing using games and creative activities. The learning process is accompanied by children’s creative activity. Therefore, the natural language teaching method is perceived not only as the process of language learning but also, and most importantly, as educating through language, where language is both a means of communication and a thinking tool. The concept is based on the belief that child’s language is a specific phenomenon determined, on the one hand, by natural child development and, on the other hand, by child’s interactions with the environment. Consequently, child’s language education should be enhanced by a subtle help from an adult, who – by the use of provocation, arrangement and gentle encouragement to take actions – opens up a new, unknown space to the child, i.e. the world of writing. Language plays a role of a factor that integrates various fields of knowledge and different types of child’s activity in reality perception and acquisition. Natural situations used in the teaching of reading, which create occasional educational situations, inspire the child and simultaneously introduce him into the world of writing. Thus, learning to read should be accompanied by learning to write. The discovery of new values that the novel language of signs has with regards to information acquisition increases child’s motivation to verbalise his own thoughts and to learn to read and write. Emotional engagement facilitates memorizing a story or new vocabulary. It sensitizes the child to the graphical, phonological and semantic dimension of a given word by making a direct link between the graphical representation and the sound. A point of departure for natural language teaching is a short and simple text and illustrations that highly relate to it. Texts form stories included in little books entitled “Sunshine Library”. There is a series of 40 books designed for pre-school children self-study of reading. The books are graded at four levels of difficulty. Didactic aids used in the series are very well organised and introduce already consolidated semantic structures, providing new contents regarding language competence at a slow pace. Each book is composed of three stories. Typically, the first story includes one text with carefully selected new language structures. The following two stories serve the purpose of material consolidation. The essence of the books are pictures, which should be in line with the text because the basis of reading is to associate an image with its graphical representation. The print used in the books is large, legible, the words are clearly separated, and every sentence starts with a new line. The stories are simple and presented with repetitive sentence patterns. Natural language teaching develops and deepens child’s natural willingness to speak, read or draw graphical symbols. Speech is here not only the foundation of child’s expression and learning to read and write, but also a support for child’s paralanguage activity. The article presents the use of the natural language teaching method in pre-school children education.

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How Children can Support Their Learning to Write and Read by Computer in the Early Years of School

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Nurmilaakso M.

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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2015

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vol. 17

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issue 1

99-107

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Over the last decades the nature and form of what children can choose to read has changed radically, partly as a consequence of rapid technological advances and the increasing dominance of the image. The research questions were: 1) How do children learn to read and write by computer? 2) How can one support children’s learning during the transition from pre-school to primary school? and 3) How can we support learning during the transition from pre-school to primary school in the future? This work is based on a questionnaire that was sent to kindergarten and primary school teachers in the Helsinki area. Only 27 teachers in the pre-school or primary school answered the questionnaire. Following this, the questionnaire was also sent to kindergarten and primary school student teachers. The results show that that it is easy for children to acquaint themselves with the computer keyboard and that children actually enjoy playing by writing on computer. The respondents said that children must, at first, train to write by hand, then by computer.

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Children's Language Improvement Possibilities

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Kuzina V.

Ad verba liberorum

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2011

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vol. 3

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issue 1

60-73

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Development and improvement of children's language generally takes place on three levels: the first level - parents, the influence of language in the family, the second level - the influence of language at school (pre-school and primary school), and the third level - the influence of language in the environment (the yard, the street or the local area). A child exists in a world full of words. It intuitively more or less understands and applies the most frequently heard words and expressions in the everyday speech. A child's language is largely influenced by the family, teachers, as well as friends and other people that are considered by the child to be its authority. All of these sources play a certain role in the processes of language acquisition and development of speech culture. Linguistic communication is also closely associated with learning the accepted norms of behaviour, use of means of language expression in particular communication situations, their appropriate or inappropriate use. It is known that a wide range of linguistic means, a rich vocabulary, knowledge of the meanings and function peculiarities of words are required for the expression of thoughts, feelings and judgements, Enrichment of vocabulary is closely tied with the intellectual growth of a child. There are diverse ways of enriching their lexicon and evoking interest in words. Imperfections in children's vocabulary have various reasons: the inability of parents to cultivate the language of their children in the pre-school age, insufficient performance of teachers in identifying the value of words, lack of unified requirements in the area of speech culture cultivation for teachers of various lessons (kindergarten) and of all subjects (primary school).Childhood is both the fundament of life and language learning. Only by fully acquiring one's native language and by developing speech can a person become part of the cultural life in his or her native country and exist as a creative personality, qualitatively perform tasks at work and successfully engage in communication.

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Multicultural Pedagogy: Strengthening Social Interaction Among Multi-Ethnic Pre-School Children

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Mamat N., Hashim A. T., Razalli A. R., Awang M. M.

The New Educational Review

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2022

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vol. 67

56-67

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This study explored multicultural pedagogy in pre-school education and how it plays an important role in strengthening the social interactions among children. The Multicultural Pedagogy approach in teaching children has established the multi-ethnic (PERPADUAN/Unity) pre-school. It is a qualitative study with data drawn from observation and interview sessions aimed to identify strategies in nurturing social interaction among multi-ethnic children. Through purposive sampling, a teacher with twenty-five children and parents from various ethnicities were selected. This study revealed that practising multicultural pedagogy reflects the diversity of ethnics strengthening social interaction. The teacher exposed the children to the cultures of every ethnic group to ensure they have understood other cultures from different ethnicity. When the children are exposed to the elements of different cultures, a sense of acceptance and tolerance attitude can be fostered. This strategy nurtured national integration, encouraging interactions among multi-ethnic children, stimulating acceptance and tolerance between children and creating a school environment that reflects the diversity of ethnicities. Core multicultural elements have been found in the PERPADUAN/Unity School. Overall findings from the current study provide new evidence illustrating how multicultural pedagogy implemented strengthens social interaction in early childhood education.

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Reading Acquisition Among 5- to 6-Year-Old Children in the Programme of Compulsory Preparation for School

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Zariņa S.

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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2010

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vol. 1

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issue 1

93-108

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Abstract In the context of compulsory education for 5-6 year-old children, the question about reading acquisition is one of fundamental concerns for both pre-school teachers and parents. This article examines the methods of reading acquisition frequently applied in preschool, discusses the situation and teachers’ view of reading acquisition in pre-school in Latvia and provides suggestions for reading literacy development of 5-6 years old children based on the keystones of sustainable development. The article is a contribution in the construction of a theoretically grounded and sustainable model of reading acquisition for 5-6 year-old children meeting global educational challenges and Latvian local needs.

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Wypalenie zawodowe w pracy nauczyciela przedszkola

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Fijałkowska-Mroczek A.

Społeczeństwo i Edukacja. Międzynarodowe Studia Humanistyczne

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2017

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issue 1(24)

29-37

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The article contains the definition of professional burn-out and introduces it levels. In the paper, there are presented pilot research results conducted among the pre-school teachers in Poland and Slovakia. Research results were analysed through a comparative analysis. In the paper there are identified the levels of the professional burn-out of the examined teachers, namely: emotional exhaustion, deperson- alization, and the decreasing of the personal success satisfaction.

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Pojetí a rozvoj čtenářské pregramotnosti v předškolním období

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Kropáčková J., Wildová R., Kucharská A.

Pedagogická orientace (Journal of the Czech Pedagogical Society)

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2014

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vol. 24

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issue 4

488–509

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The focus of this paper is on pre-reading literacy, which is considered to be an important part of lifelong learning. The foundations of reading literacy, other literacies, character features, and motivation for learning are set mainly in the pre-primary age. The aim of this study is to describe the approach to pre-reading literacy in Czech education, analyse the terminology changes and summarize the research outcomes focused on the concept of pre-reading literacy, and its support and development in home environment. In the first part, the authors focus on the terminology changes, its use in Czech pre-school education, and specify the terminology from the point of view of literacy development and in the context of the current Czech pre-school curriculum. The second part presents outcomes of Czech pre-reading literacy research. The third part discusses the possibilities to include the above mentioned topics into the curriculum of pre-school teachers at Faculty of Education at Charles University in Prague. It also mentions other ways to make the pre-school development more effective as it is considered to be one of the key periods in the development of reading literacy. Further on, the authors explain the preference for the term pre-reading literacy. They also highlight why it is necessary to approach pre-reading literacy in a complex way, not only in research, but also in teacher training and in pre-school education in general.

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Multimedia in pre-school education

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Chepil M., Marzec B., Borda M.

Konteksty Pedagogiczne

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2018

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vol. 2

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issue 11

11-24

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Autorzy artykułu podejmują refleksję naukową nad wykorzysta-niem multimediów w edukacji przedszkolnej. Na podstawie przykładu Szkoły Podstawowej z Jednostkami Przedszkolnymi nr 26 w Dąbrowie Górniczej przed-stawiają zalety korzystania z tablicy interaktywnej podczas zajęć. Relacjonują wyniki badań własnych, przeprowadzonych wśród nauczycieli przedszkolnych. Wskazują także na nieuchronność korzystania z multimediów w procesie peda-gogiczno-dydaktycznym.

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The authors of the article undertake an academic reflection on using the multimedia in pre-school education. On the bases of the example of the 26th Prima-ry School with Pre-school Units in Dąbrowa Górnicza, the advantages of using the interactive board during classes have been presented. The results of the Authors’ own research carried out among pre-school teachers, have been presented. The inevitabi-lity of using the multimedia in the pedagogic-didactic process has been pointed out.

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Multimedia in pre-school education

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Chepil M., Marzec B., Borda M.

Konteksty Pedagogiczne

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2018

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vol. 2

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issue 11

11-24

PL

Autorzy artykułu podejmują refleksję naukową nad wykorzysta-niem multimediów w edukacji przedszkolnej. Na podstawie przykładu Szkoły Podstawowej z Jednostkami Przedszkolnymi nr 26 w Dąbrowie Górniczej przed-stawiają zalety korzystania z tablicy interaktywnej podczas zajęć. Relacjonują wyniki badań własnych, przeprowadzonych wśród nauczycieli przedszkolnych. Wskazują także na nieuchronność korzystania z multimediów w procesie peda-gogiczno-dydaktycznym.

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The authors of the article undertake an academic reflection on using the multimedia in pre-school education. On the bases of the example of the 26th Prima-ry School with Pre-school Units in Dąbrowa Górnicza, the advantages of using the interactive board during classes have been presented. The results of the Authors’ own research carried out among pre-school teachers, have been presented. The inevitabi-lity of using the multimedia in the pedagogic-didactic process has been pointed out.

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Edukacja (przed)szkolna sześciolatków (refleksje o wprowadzaniu reformy przez MEN)

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Suświłło M.

Edukacja Elementarna w Teorii i Praktyce

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2015

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issue 3(37)

71-86

PL

W niniejszym opracowaniu są przedstawione własne poglądy autorki na temat wprowadzonego w Polsce w 2008 roku obowiązku szkolnego dla dzieci sześcioletnich. Autorka krytykuje decyzję Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej jako niepodbudowaną naukowo i niezasadną oraz jako nieuzgodnioną, ani z przedstawicielami środowiska akademickiego, ani z rodzicami, zarzucając politykom i autorom reformy brak demokracji. Autorka opisuje niewłaściwy, jej zdaniem, sposób wprowadzania reformy edukacji, podając przykłady opracowań mówiących o braku przygotowania szkół i nauczycieli na przyjęcie dzieci 6-letnich i nieliczenie się decydentów oświatowych z osiągnięciami nauki w tym zakresie. W dalszej części przytacza powody, dla których dzieci 6-letnie powinny być objęte edukacją przedszkolną. Zwraca uwagę m.in. na warunki społeczne, emocjonalne, materialne i organizacyjne, jakie stwarza dzieciom przedszkole, a których nie jest, jej zdaniem, w chwili obecnej spełnić polska szkoła. Jako przykład propagandowego charakteru kampanii reklamowej MEN na rzecz posłania 6-latków do szkoły przytacza wybrane fragmenty tekstów ze stron internetowych i poddaje je krytyce. Zdaniem autorki teksty propagandowe MEN posiadają ukryte znaczenie deprecjonujące edukacyjną rolę przedszkola. Konkludując, autorka zwraca uwagę na polityczny charakter wprowadzanej reformy i na deprecjonowanie rangi wychowania przedszkolnego. Zauważa też, że w demokratycznym państwie decyzję o posłaniu dzieci 6-letnich do szkoły lub też pozostawieniu ich w placówce przedszkolnej powinni podjąć sami rodzice.

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This paper presents its author’s opinions regarding the compulsory school education of six-year-olds introduced in Poland in 2008. Commenting critically on the decision made by the Ministry of National Education, the author emphasises, firstly, that academic research lends no support to it, and, secondly, that the decision was made without consulting either academic experts or children’s parents, so that it manifested a complete disregard for democratic norms on the part of both the politicians involved and those who planned the reforms. The author shows just how dysfunctional the reforms have proved to be by pointing to research which reveals that neither school institutions, nor teachers themselves, have been properly prepared for educating six-year-olds. Furthermore, reasons are given for why children aged six should be educated as part of the pre-school education system. The author emphasizes that preschool institutions guarantee these children social, emotional, material, and organisational conditions, such as cannot be offered by ordinary Polish schools at the present time. The campaign sponsored by the Ministry of National Education, aimed at encouraging parents to send their sixyear- olds to school, is, in the author’s opinion, actually a form of propaganda seeking to devalue the educational role of pre-school establishments. In order to illustrate her viewpoint, the author quotes selected fragments from texts published by the Ministry of National Education on its website. In conclusion, she calls attention both to the political character of the reform introduced, and to its devaluing of the importance of pre-school education. She also observes that in a democratic state, it should be for parents to decide whether their six-year-old children can already commence regular schooling or should continue with pre-school education instead.

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The Change in Approach to Preparing Children to Learn to Read and Write

How Children can Support Their Learning to Write and Read by Computer in the Early Years of School

Children's Language Improvement Possibilities

Multicultural Pedagogy: Strengthening Social Interaction Among Multi-Ethnic Pre-School Children

Reading Acquisition Among 5- to 6-Year-Old Children in the Programme of Compulsory Preparation for School

Wypalenie zawodowe w pracy nauczyciela przedszkola

Pojetí a rozvoj čtenářské pregramotnosti v předškolním období

Multimedia in pre-school education

Multimedia in pre-school education

Edukacja (przed)szkolna sześciolatków (refleksje o wprowadzaniu reformy przez MEN)