“[L]iteracy needs to be acknowledged as a complex and expansive process…[not] reduced and oversimplified in colonizing ways” (Souto-Manning & Yoon, 2018).

Goal 3 ~ Artifact 3B

LLED 556A 62A: Theory and Research in Early Literacy (Instructor: Dr. Guofang Li)

Literature Circle Presentation – used with permission of group

This presentation is a literacy circle group project about the book Rethinking Early Literacies (2018), written by Souto-Manning and Yoon. This book calls for us to reimagine early literacy in education. Thank you to my colleagues and group members, Lori Huston, Sarah Lorne, and Anastasia Kokinis for working collaboratively on this presentation. Please note: This project is being shared with group members’ permission. 

Children come to school with many resources, experiences, and capabilities that contribute to their language and literacy development. Teachers have the responsibility to support the complex and diverse nature of student’s language and literacy realities by creating enough time and space to include and honour them. In this project, we considered the question: What does an inclusive and diverse; authentic and meaningful; rich and relevant early literacy program look like? This presentation explains how play-based methods can be used to educate, engage, and empower all members of the educational community through collaboration, leadership, activism, and transformative change. 

View Presentation: Google Slides

Download PDF: Rethinking Early Literacies

References

Souto-Manning, M., & Yoon, H. (2018). Rethinking early literacy: Reading and rewriting worlds. New

York: Routledge.