Reading and writing strategies

The two age groups from different periods in the physical development process are the early childhood development and the early adolescence development. The early childhood development is classified from the ages of two to six years old.

Early childhood usually falls in the time where children are in preschool and their language skills develop dramatically. The early adolescence period is from the ages ten to fourteen years old (University of Phoenix, 2004). I chose these two developmental periods because I found them most interesting and they are both very different from the other one. The expected reading development in early childhood children and early adolescent children is greatly different. Early childhood children have a very short attention span at the beginning on this stage so it is very hard for them to sit still for long enough to understand the concept of reading. Young children usually enjoy being read to but they will very rarely sit with their caregiver for long enough to read an entire book.

In the beginning of the early childhood stage, a good writing activity would be to have the children draw freely and encourage them to make shapes of letters. Tracing letters on paper is also an excellent activity to get the children used to writing the different letters. Towards the end of the early childhood age group the children could keep a journal and have a set amount of time every day to write an entry into their journal. The journal would encourage them to write because they have the time set aside to do so and it will also track their progress by being able to see how much their writing has improved by the end of the class. Children in the early adolescence stage have been reading and writing for a long time now but they still need to have activities in the classroom to keep improving and expanding their skills.

Teachers should assign books that need to be read in a certain about of time for their reading activities. A good writing activity to follow up on the book that was assigned would be to write a short summary of the book. To add even more of a writing assignment the teacher could make a list of words that had to be used by the student in the summary or give them a list of points in the book that need to be addressed in the paper. To strengthen the child’s reading and writing skills, in both age categories, the teacher should simply point out what the child is doing wrong and help them to correct them. It is a necessity to point out the child’s flaws in their work or else the will never knows what they are doing wrong (University of Phoenix, 2004). Another good thing for the teacher to do to strengthen the child’s skills would be to make sure it is known that they are there to help.