"What Young Children Teach Us About Literacy Learning"

What Young Children Teach Us About Literacy Learning – Catherine Maderazo


By sitting down and scanning through this article, I was able to obtain the following information. (Not sure)  I feel like I do not have enough information to write so that this blog is 'good' enough but here goes...


Purpose:  The author's purpose was probably to tell what young children know about literacy and how they come to know it.  Even though society teaches us that children usually are known to know less than adults.  Children can also teach adults new things i.e. children's work which is photocopied into the article.


Process:  (From flipping and looking through the pages) The author's process was probably putting children's work into the article and then explaining the child's work.  Children's work was photocopied into the book as an  example and then the author explained the picture/image.  There were various lessons that were explained based on the children's work.


Sources:  The author probably studied her children's work or other children's work.  She might have gone to a classroom to get children's work to study.  This person (I think she is a teacher) might have used her knowledge as a teacher to explain the children's work.  


In terms of methods, she used ethnographics, observations, and visual analysis.