R-A Chpt.13 Promoting Literacy Development

This chapter expands on the ideas of teaching literacy through a natural language framework that were introduced in chapter 5. They talk about using the language experience approach which is where the students begin writing experiences from stories and other things that they dictate to the teacher who then writes it down. I think this idea would work well especially with beginners because it will make it easier for them to connect written and spoken language since they will already know the meaning of the words since it comes directly from them. I was already familiar with the techniques discussed under the Literature-Based curriculum as I learned about the before-during- after reading activities in my content area reading class. I also found the section about feed back on errors quite helpful as I never would have thought of providing feedback on content/meaning based errors first and then the grammatical/spelling errors on later drafts.