Literacy as a social practice is a contemporary view of literacy, it includes the regular forms of written and visual literacy but also the oral texts such as talking and listening. ‘Literacies in childhood’ chapter 3 provides sufficient evidence that there is a strong relationship between social practices and children literature. The children’s understanding and use of literacy is affected by historical, social, cultural and political factors and through the children’s daily lives, they gain knowledge about certain literature topics from specific social groups. An example is at a language school which would have literature pieces suitable to the language that was being taught. Being submersed into these schools will allow children to be able …show more content…
It is recommended that children should be gradually subjected to pieces of literature from birth until they can read and write to a certain extent, with chapter 2 suggesting that within the first five years of life, children should be capable of many aspects of reading and writing. It is highly important, that teachers understand the impact literature has on the development of children’s literacy skills. If the children fail to read literature, it will eventually impact on all aspects of the children’s learning.
The reading of children’s literature provides opportunities for children to further develop their knowledge on vocabulary, understanding of text, story narratives and a story schema. By children not receiving allocated time to read literature, emergent literacy practices such as knowing that English words are read from left to right and that narrative has a beginning, middle and end, their skills will not be to a certain standard. In the early childhood settings, teaching sequences should be encouraged to include children’s literature while still meeting the curriculum guidelines. As evidence suggests there is a relationship between the volume of reading and vocabulary knowledge which supports that the reading of children’s literature is one of the most important activity’s to build knowledge and skills on