Student name: Sapana Karki EDU30001 Assignment 1
Student ID: 103343656 Imagining the World through Language Essay
and Literature
EDU30001: Imagining the World through Language and
Literature
Assignment 1: Essay
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Student name: Sapana Karki EDU30001 Assignment 1
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and Literature
Children’s literature is an important part of their literacy development as it not only improves
oral language and listening skills, but it also assists children to have knowledge about
themselves as well as the world around them. Children who are exposed to stories, rhymes,
poems, and picture books from birth gain more understanding as readers and writers
(Luongo-Orlando, 2012). Reading can benefit children in many ways, like building
comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and other essential literacy skills. Literature challenges
children to understand new concepts, evaluate information, interpret comprehension,
language, prediction, and vocabulary skills. From birth to early childhood, the children must
develop their oral language and initial emergent literacy skills.
This essay will argue the importance of children's literature as a crucial part of literacy
education. Furthermore, this essay will demonstrate the role storytelling and picture books
have in children's different developmental period of language acquisition and literacy skill
development. Additionally, it will show detail on how children's literature and storytelling
strengthen their development across the various stages of literacy skill and language
acquisition.
Children’s literature can change, engage, and produce good responses for young children and
play an essential role in developing oral and expressive language (Hunt, 2005). Strasser &
Seplocha (2007) mentioned that oral language is a key to literacy development in early
childhood. Evidence shows that the most crucial period for evolving oral language and initial
emergent literacy skills is before schooling in early childhood years, which plays a significant
role in supporting growth in this development (Luongo-Orlando, 2010). Furthermore,
Researchers demonstrate that children need to obtain literacy skills like speak, listen,
comprehend, and interact with text before they learn to read and write. Different literature
books like the picture and oral storytelling provide meaningful context for children to get
skills in expressive (speaking) and receptive (listening) oral language (Fellows & Oakley,
2014). However, the teacher needs to make sure to cater diversity resources in the classroom
for children from different background. It has been proven that reading picture books to
children will create a deep love of literature and exposes them to the elaborateness of
language such as sound and rhythms, phonological awareness, grammar, sentence structure
and develop vocabulary.
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For young children, picture books are an excellent resource for engaging in stories. Pictures
in the storybooks reflect the same as text. Reading picture books to children by their
educator/ parents will influence long term language development and improve their
vocabulary throughout their childhood. In the early year setting, the teacher could use picture
books like "Dear Zoo" (Campbell, 2019) that have simple sentence's structure and clear
pictures that will help young children's oral language and vocabulary, understand between
concepts and words and phonological pattern of expressive oral language (Luongo-Orland,
2010). This book is perfect for age 0-2 years old as it has lots of colourful pictures and is a
flip-up book that babies love. Children could guess the animals hiding behind the carriage
and learn different words like big, tall, cheeky and imitate sounds they make with the teacher.
According to Salisbury & Styles (2012), Picture books play a significant role in children's
literacy learning and supporting emergent literacy, providing enjoyment through visual
literacy. There should be enough literature and appropriate books that are engaging in the
classroom and could offer opportunities for discussion for children that could help develop
their oral language. There will be children from different cultures in the early year setting, so
keeping that in mind, other cultural poems and nursery rhymes should include to make them
feel belonging and express themselves through their language. Liu (2014) states that when
parents/educators read picture books to young children, they get long term influence on the
language development, greater vocabulary diversity and appropriate use of target words
throughout their childhood.
The receptive form of oral language is also supported by reading pictures books aloud and
storytelling. Picture books are also called visual literacy and are very important to build up
children's positive emotions and oral language skills. The children will develop skills of
evaluating and making meaning from the pictures when reading visual books. Psychologists,
as well as educators, believe that children get excellent knowledge with picture books. It also
helps build on their prior knowledge and resources that children can use to help their problem
by asking questions, answering questions, and using their language to express their point of
view. "The very hungry caterpillar" (Carle, 1994) is an outstanding book to read to children in
their early years. This book excites children because of its colourful pictures and how the
caterpillar keeps on eating until he gets full, and how he built himself a cocoon and turn into
a butterfly. Lots of discussion and activities could create comparing all the food, their names,
days of the week, and exploring insects and their habitats. The teacher could extend their
interest by providing similar kind stories of different animals.
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Pictures books tell stories in both words and pictures, and it encourages children to develop
their minds and think in new ways (Strasser & Seplocha, 2007). By interacting with the
printed words, the technical elements of illustrations- colour, line, shape, and composition-
establish and enhance the story (Strasser & Seplocha, 2007). When children read picture
books many times, they develop vocabulary skills by understanding the story correctly and
could get confident to be the storyteller themselves in future. It has been evident that when
the educator reads a book depending upon the children's choices, the children tend to learn
effectively and enthusiastically. Fellows & Oakley (2014) mentioned that when the classroom
has a vast collection of books, children tend to read more than the in the classroom with no
such collections.
Storytelling is vitally important to build children literacy and language skills. Storytelling
skilfully and enthusiastically to the children is one of the best gifts teachers could give to
them. Storytelling also introduces children’s thoughts to different cultures, their values and
beliefs. Hearing stories helps children learn that the different ways stories are structured, their
purposes, and the intonation patterns of the language (Bromley, 2019). "Three little pigs" is a
folktale story that contains is a very simple, repetitive, and predictable structure for the
children. A simple passage like when a Wolf knocked on the door and said, "Little pig, little
pig, let me come in." A pig answers "No, no by the hair of my chinny chin chin" will enable
children to follow the story's structure. As it has repetition, children will enthusiastically
predict the following line of the story (Typadi & Hayon, 2010). As the story is very simple,
the children will understand the structure of stories and remodel the story into their play,
which further helps children develop their literacy skills. The children could further recreate
their own story by using animal puppets and different resources to put in the play.
Trionfi & Reese (2009) observed that when children are involved in imaginary play, they
build up their language skills, have a more advanced receptive vocabulary, and develop more
complex syntax in their speech. It has proved that storytelling helps children to improve their
grammar and structure sentences. However, finding appropriate books for children is crucial
to grab their attention and involve them in the discussion. Doing this will help children to
focus their attention on the sound of language, develop their phonological awareness and
vocabulary development. Luongo-Orlando (2010) observed that to make, memorable children
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experience with books, there should be a variety of literature choices that help them learn to
read independently and develop their writing skills.
Expressive language is also essential in the development of children's language and literacy
acquisition. Storytelling supports this development by modelling and scaffolding children in
many ways in which voice and body language is used to convey expression. The Early Years
Learning Framework states that children are effective communicators and communication is
vital to children's learning and development and develop their literacy skill by music,
movement, storytelling, drama, talking, listening, reading (Department of Education,
Employment and Workplace Relations, [DEEWR], 2009). It verifies that children's literature
and oral modes of storytelling support expressive and receptive oral language to
communicate with their world.
In conclusion, literature plays a fundamental part in the development of language acquisition
and literacy development in children. It is clear that literature provides an exciting and major
role in development of oral language, imagination skills, cultural diversity, and social and
emotional learning. It also strengthens children's vocabulary and encourages engagement and
social interaction with others. Storytelling and picture books are critical in the early years of
children to be literate. However, the teacher needs to make sure the books are suitable for the
age group, which help children language and personal development.
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