Making meaning is central to children’s emergent literacy development.
Comprehending texts and expressing ideas using various media are capacities that children develop gradually throughout early childhood and formal schooling.
This learning focus page explores:
- how most texts are multimodal:
- allowing children to use multiple literacies to make meaning
- for example visual, musical, kinaesthetic, digital, as well as emergent reading and writing:
- children’s emergent reading comprehension
- emergent written expression and how these can be developed and supported by educators.
They become aware of the relationships between oral and visual representations, and recognise patterns and relationships… Young children begin to explore written communication by scribbling, drawing and producing approximations of writing.
Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (2016) Outcome 5
This learning focus concerns the process of meaning making within the four resources model (Freebody and Luke, 1990), where children engage in making meaning from texts, and create meaning within their own texts.
This learning focus differs from exploring and creating texts, which is concerned with the functions and purposes of texts; that is how they are used (as per the four resources model: Freebody and Luke, 1990).
The importance of making meaning and expressing ideas in texts
Emergent reading comprehension and written expression are dependent on children’s developing capacities (Fellowes and Oakley, 2014):
- first and foremost, children’s meaning making of images and other symbol systems (art, music, dance, and play/drama) (Wright, 2012)
- various oral language skills including concept development and vocabulary, grammar, and narrative comprehension
- emergent literacy skills (scaffolded by adults) like concepts of print, early phonological awareness, early letter-sound awareness (phonics), and knowledge of text types (genres).
The first and second of the above capacities are considered to be more innate to children (Piaget, 1923, 2009):
The human child is endowed with ingenuity and symbol-making propensities to go beyond reality as immediate experience. By using the symbol systems of art, music, dance, and play/drama, children manipulate images and concepts, thus joining with others who share a culture…Wright (2012, p. 2)
In contrast, emergent literacy development requires a combination of child-led, guided, and adult-led learning to build these important capacities (VEYLDF Practice Principle: Integrated Teaching and Learning Approaches).
Making meaning and expressing ideas through texts is an important learning focus because of the crucial role that educators play to bring the texts to life. Educators can achieve this during reading and writing experiences, by scaffolding children’s emergent reading comprehension (making meaning from texts) and emergent written expression (expressing ideas through texts).
Meaning can be conveyed in multiple modes (written language, spoken language, visual, audio, gestural, and tactile and spatial systems of meaning) (Kalantzis, Cope, Chan, and Dalley-Trim, 2016). Multimodal texts are those that combine two or more of these modes to create meaning, for example picture books, films, posters, web pages and oral storytelling.
As small children, we lived in a multimodal world. We discovered that art was a language with as much communication power as speech. Later we learned, like oral language, that the arts could act as a bridge to reading and writing and that music and movement had the same potential for contributing to our expression of meaning and self. Crafton, Silvers and Brennan (2017, p. 68)
Some argue that as informational communication technologies develop and change communication, literacy can no longer be thought of as just a language-based phenomenon (Jewitt, 2008, p.241).
Therefore, children’s engagement with multimodal texts is valued and fundamental to meaning making even without the reading comprehension or written expression of “traditional literacy” (reading and writing).
The engagement with and creation of multimodal texts is critical to children’s development in and of itself, but also as important precursors to their reading and writing development (Saracho, 2017; Puranik and Lonigan, 2011).
Symbols, signs, and texts
Researchers interested in how meaning making systems work discuss how all texts (be they visual, musical, written, verbal or otherwise) contain signs and symbols that can be interpreted to make meaning. Children become attuned to these symbols, as they:
…recognise the function and value of visual elements and use them to symbolise meaning, for example using colour in painting to express emotions. VEYLDF (2016) Outcome 5
Visual literacy is the capacity to make meaning from still and moving image texts, including picture books, art, non-fiction books, posters, comic strips, animations, film clips, web pages, advertisements, graphic novels, and more (Callow, 2013).
Some examples of signs/symbols in texts are:
- artwork that conveys different emotions through the use of colour, darkness
- music that uses volume and a combination of instruments to express a sense of power
- video footage that uses slow motion at a crucial point in the story, to convey a sense of importance or anticipation
- body language and movement that communicates (for example, a sense of feeling proud and excited)
- descriptive language in a story that represents a character as scary.
By paying attention to and highlighting the linguistic, visual (and multimodal) aspects of texts during emergent literacy experiences, educators can support children to engage with texts using multiple modes of communication.
Archie and the Bear is fictional picture storybook with much of the meaning of the story communicated through illustrations. The author uses size, perspective, colour, and texture to communicate the emotions and relationship between the characters.
Meaning making and reading comprehension
A useful definition of comprehension for early childhood purposes is provided by Fellowes and Oakley (2014, p. 297):
…we define comprehension as a complex, dynamic and strategic process that involves the reader using prior knowledge about the world, about language and about texts to construct and extract meaning from texts.
Through reading experiences with adults, children begin to independently make meaning, tuning into symbolic systems. Using book reading as an example, these systems develop from:
- the tactile (touch and feel, interactive books)
- auditory (bells, whistles, crackles on books)
- and visual (illustrations, photos)
- to the verbal (reader telling story) and written (interpreting letters and beginning to recognise words).
This use of the “signs” within texts to make meaning is acknowledged in the VEYLDF, as children:
…learn to recognise how sounds are represented alphabetically and identify some letter sounds, symbols, characters and signs. As children continue to build their skills in reading printed text from left to right and top to bottom (in English language households), they use information in context from pictures and other sources to assist in making meaning. VEYLDF (2016) Outcome 5
Here the developmental milestones for emergent reading comprehension are provided, along with an explanation of the types of comprehension, and ways of facilitating comprehension while reading with children.
Emergent reading comprehension - key developmental milestones
The following ages and stages are a guide that reflects broad developmental norms, but does not limit the expectations for every child (see
VEYLDF Practice Principle: High expectations for every child). It is always important to understand children’s learning and development as a continuum of growth, irrespective of their age.
Adapted from Owens (2015).
Early communicators (birth - 18 months):
- enjoy shared book reading
- enjoy nursery rhymes and songs
- may attempt to sing or chant rhymes/songs
- may pretend to read while others are reading.
Early language users (12 - 36 months):
- learn to recognise name in print
- recognising environmental print and its meaning
- enjoy reading with adults
- may engage (independently) in “reading-like behaviours” with familiar books/texts, using memory of the print, and recognition of concepts using pictures
- make meaning from texts with scaffolding by adults.
Language and emergent literacy learners (30 - 60 months):
- make meaning from texts with adult support, and independently by using context of illustrations and other media
- towards age five, start to recognise certain high frequency words in context (i.e. with picture, or as part of a rhyme), and use these to help make meaning along with other contextual information.
Types of comprehension
In early childhood, three kinds of comprehension are discussed (literal, inferential and evaluative), with the literal being the primary type of comprehension for young children.
Literal comprehension is understanding what is being communicated directly in a text (i.e. the who, what, when, where, how, why). Children use their emergent literacy skills (as well as other symbol systems) to make literal meanings from what is being communicated in the text by the author.
Some question stems that educators can use to check for literal comprehension include:
- what can you see on this page?
- tell me about what is happening here........?
- show me the …
- what is........?
- what happened.........?
- how did.........?
- how far.........?
- how many.........?
Inferential comprehension involves children finding clues and hints within the text. It requires children to use their prior knowledge and the available information in the text to make an inference (informed guess) about what is being communicated by the author.
Some question stems that educators can use to facilitate and scaffold inferential comprehension include:
- what do you think happened?
- what do you think will happen next?
- why did........?
- why is........?
- why do you think that.......?
- can you explain........?
- what caused........?
- what do you think ........ means?
- why is ........ important?
Evaluative comprehension involves children thinking outside of the text and considering the bigger picture. It asks children what they think of the features, characters, actions, situations, endings of a text; what their favourite, or least favourite parts/characters/features are, and why.
Some question stems that educators can use to facilitate and scaffold inferential comprehension include:
- do you think.......?
- do you like.......?
- why do you think........?
- what would happen if.........?
- how do you feel about.........?
- why do you like/not like........?
- if you were........what would you do?
Because emergent reading comprehension (and meaning making in general) is complex, it relies on the development of multiple sets of skills. Fellowes and Oakley (2014, p. 295) remind us of the importance of the:
… knowledge of the syntax [grammar] and vocabulary of the language (in this case, English), which children initially gain through oral language experiences…
Facilitating comprehension of texts is therefore supported by engaging children in rich learning experiences to develop their oral language. In line with Freebody and Luke’s (1990) Four Resources model, code-related emergent literacy skills are also important to develop.
Finally, the discussions that educators engage children in before, during, and after reading/viewing texts are also important:
It is extremely beneficial to talk about the meanings of the texts read aloud and to help children notice and think about features of the language used.
Fellowes and Oakley (2014, p. 295)
The main pedagogical strategies for talking about texts with children in early childhood settings include:
- activating and using prior knowledge
- asking and answering questions
- summarising and synthesising.
See the teaching practice
reading with children (emergent literacy) for explanations of these pedagogical strategies.
Drawing as written expression
Writing is a complex form of communication. A key developmental transition is when children realise that speech/language can be written down, and that marks on a page, or strokes on a keyboard communicate a message (Mackenzie, 2014).
The Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VEYLDF, 2016) takes a broad view of the ways that children engage in emergent written expression:
Children are effective communicators. Their communication and self-expression take many forms including sharing stories and symbols from their own culture, re-enacting well-known stories and using creative arts, such as drawing, painting and sculpture, drama, dance, movement and music to communicate with others. VEYLDF (2016) Outcome 5
In this toolkit, children’s drawing is a primary form of written expression that precedes and encourages the development of conventional writing at the commencement of formal schooling. This view is supported by numerous early childhood literacy researchers:
Dyson (1986), for example, recognised that children’s drawing was an integral piece to children’s emergent literacy practice, one of many symbol systems afforded to young children in their efforts to become textual meaning-makers. Dyson’s work is encompassed by a more refined view of literacy that … consider[s] how children come to use different symbol systems, or modalities, as a way of communicating meaning. Sunday (2017, p. 87)
Australian research by Mackenzie (2011) has also highlighted the importance of drawing as written expression.
Facilitating children’s drawing experiences are opportunities to engage in the earliest forms of written expression, as well as learning about the artform of drawing:
If teachers encourage and value drawing they can build a bridge between children’s prior-to-school experiences, a current system of meaning making and the new system of writing. Mackenzie (2011, p. 338)
This research shows that as well as facilitating oral language, drawings can act as an anchor for children’s ideas as they begin to experiment with letters and engage in emergent writing activities (Mackenzie, 2011).
Drawing is an important facilitator of written/visual expression that enhances and encourages the emergence of later (more traditional) forms of writing, towards the commencement of formal schooling.
In this way writing becomes a parallel means of meaning making rather than a replacement for the drawing and talking they already do so well when they arrive at school. Mackenzie (2011, p. 338)
Taking this view of drawing as a central way of scaffolding children’s written expression, the following key developmental milestones for written expression are provided, as well as links to relevant teaching practices (writing with children, fine arts – emergent literacy).
Emergent written expression
Key developmental milestones
The following ages and stages are a guide that reflects broad developmental norms, but does not limit the expectations for every child. It is always important to understand children’s learning and development as a continuum of growth, irrespective of their age.
The following is adapted from Mackenzie (2014) and Mackenzie and Scull (2015). It should be noted that determining a “sequence” of emergent writing skills is not always possible (Mackenzie, 2011), and that these milestones vary considerably between children and depend significantly on the writing opportunities that children have been provided.
Early communicators (birth–18 months):
- notice others’ writing
- start to engage in mark marking.
Early language users (12- 36 months):
- engage in mark marking with various tools(pens, pencils, textas, crayons, paints, and electronic devices)
- engage in mark making in an intentional, exploratory way, which often resembles scribbling
- learning that marks and print have meaning, and carry messages.
Language and emergent literacy learners (30 - 60 months):
- start to show awareness that writing is different to drawing
- start to create drawings that are meaningful to them
- begin to show signs of mark making in a straight line (linearity), and right-to-left (orientation) patterns
- start to produce drawings with separate letter-like characters included
- in ages 3-4, beginning to:
- produce clearer letter forms
- write random letters
- use invented spelling to annotate drawings or write messages
- towards school commencement, beginning to:
- write own name
- use some conventional spelling and writing forms
Children increasingly use conventional … writing, and simple punctuation. Over time, children learn to use and create simple texts about familiar topics and choose the content, form and vocabulary within their writing. As their skills advance, they accurately spell words that are frequently used and make use of known spelling patterns to make plausible attempts at spelling unfamiliar words. VEYLDF (2016) Outcome 5
Facilitating drawing and incorporating elements of print
Based on research by Mackenzie (2011, 2014), Puranik and Lonigan (2011), and Sunday (2017), the following methods for facilitating children’s emergent written expression are provided.
These include facilitating fine arts experiences including drawing, painting, sculpture, or multimedia text creation, and encouraging children to experiment with elements of printing their work.
Fine arts – emergent literacy offers more detailed information.
Other methods, covered in detail in the writing with children teaching practice page include:
- setting up drawing as written expression experiences
- educator annotation of drawings, paintings
- facilitating children’s letter-sound experimentation during drawing and writing
- scaffolding children’s mark making, scribbling, drawing and emergent writing to “write their own name”.
Writing with children.
Theory to practice
In early childhood, the line between literacy and art is deliberately blurred, as Wright (2012) explains:
The arts allow us to create a symbolic world and to ‘shape and reshape, revise and revision’ our own ‘hidden and subjective’ lives… They are a vehicle by which we can express our growing awareness of ourselves and the worlds in which we live. Wright (2012, p. 2), citing Abbs (2003, p. 13)
McArdle and Wright (2014) see the arts as children’s first literacies/languages: “their primary way of seeing and knowing the self in the world” (p. 22). This justifies why it is important to understand texts as multimodal.
Within the Four Resources model, emergent literacy is said to arise through a combination of different practices and resources that allow learners to make meaning and express ideas through texts (Freebody and Luke, 1990).
For reading comprehension, these are the ability to:
- break the code of texts: Text decoder
- participate in the meanings of text: Text participant
- use texts functionally: Text user
- critically analyse and transform texts: Text analyst.
Similarly, Harris, McKenzie, Fitzsimmons and Turbill (2003) built upon this model to map out four sets of writing practices to parallel the four reading practices.
Written expression abilities are to:
- encode communication into written and visual language: Text encoder
- compose meaning into texts: Text participant
- create texts for social purposes: Text user
- construct underlying values, beliefs and views into texts: Text Analyst.
Fellowes and Oakley (2014) recommend that these various roles of readers and writers can be taken on by even young children, when they are heavily scaffolded by educators. They also recommend creating a “dialogic environment” for the open discussion of texts and their meanings:
… A setting in which there is sustained and meaningful dialogue among children and educators to allow co-construction of meaning. It is very important that educators not only talk but listen to young children’s talk about the meaning they make. Fellowes and Oakley (2014, p. 298)
Similarly, Mackenzie (2011) argues that drawing is an ideal scaffold and outlet for facilitating rich engagement and construction of texts. Drawing (as another form of communication) can provide an effective, and important connection between the kinds of expression that children use in early childhood settings (meaning making using multiple media), and those expected in the early years of school (emergence of formal writing).
Mackenzie (2011, p. 324) asserts that:
For many children drawing is both child’s play (Norris, et al., 1998) and a substantive mental activity (Sheridan, 2002); a socially meaningful activity and a constructive process of thinking in action (Cox, 2005) which allows access to real and imaginary worlds (DuCharme, 1991). Drawing is ‘spontaneous, aesthetic, expressional, and graphic’ (Neu and Berglund, 1991) and holds the potential for rich expression and complex learning (Oken Wright, 1998).
Research evidence has shown that when engaging with texts, children in early childhood use very similar comprehension processes as older children (van den Brock, Kindeou, Kremer, Lynch, Butler, White and Pugzles Lorch, 2005). This supports the view that educators should engage children in meaningful discussions about texts to support their literal, figurative, and evaluative comprehension.
For written expression, when children as young as three years old are provided with drawing and writing materials, and engaged in writing experiences, their interest and skills in emergent writing will develop (Puranik and Lonigan, 2011). The researchers suggest that educators encourage children to make marks, scribble, and engage in free drawing/writing, and that scaffolding children to make a mark; to begin to write their own name; to highlight the letter-sound patterns in their name are useful strategies for older children.
Mackenzie’s (2011) work shows the important role of drawing in developing this emergent written expression (discussed above).
Concerning reading comprehension, in line with the four resources model (Freebody and Luke, 1990), research has shown that oral language and code-related skills (phonological awareness and phonics) are key skills underlying success in children’s emergent and later reading comprehension (see Hjetland et al., 2017, for review).
Similarly, research evidence shows the importance or oral language and code-related skills for emergent and later writing success (Mackenzie and Hemmings, 2014). See the other learning foci in interacting with others, and emergent literacy for more information.
Links to VEYLDF
Outcome 2: community
Children become aware of fairness:
- begin to understand and evaluate ways in which texts construct identities and create stereotypes.
Outcome 3: wellbeing
Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing:
- respond through movement to traditional and contemporary music, dance and storytelling of their own and others’ cultures
- engage in increasingly complex sensory-motor skills and movement patterns
- combine gross and fine motor movement and balance to achieve increasingly complex patterns of activity, including dance, creative movement and drama.
Outcome 5: communication
Children engage with a range of texts and get meaning from these texts:
- view and listen to printed, visual and multimedia texts and respond with relevant gestures, actions, comments and/or questions
- sing chant rhymes, jingles and songs
- take on roles of literacy and numeracy users in their play
- begin to understand key literacy and numeracy concepts and processes, such as the sounds of language, letter–sound relationships, concepts of print and the ways that texts are structured
- explore texts from a range of different perspectives and begin to analyse the meanings
- actively use, engage with and share the enjoyment of language and texts in a range of ways
- recognise and engage with written and oral culturally constructed texts.
Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media:
- use language and engage in symbolic play to imagine and create roles, scripts and ideas
- share the stories and symbols of their own cultures and re-enact well-known stories
- use the creative arts, such as drawing, painting, sculpture, drama, dance, movement, music and story-telling, to express ideas and make meaning
- experiment with ways of expressing ideas and meaning using a range of media
- begin to use images and approximations of letters and words to convey meaning.
Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work:
- use symbols in play to represent and make meaning
- begin to make connections between, and see patterns in, their feelings, ideas, words and actions, and those of others
- develop an understanding that symbols are a powerful means of communication and that ideas, thoughts and concepts can be represented through them
- begin to be aware of the relationships between oral, written and visual representations
- begin to recognise patterns and relationships and the connections between them
- listen and respond to sounds and patterns in speech, stories and rhyme
- draw on their experiences in constructing meaning using symbols.
Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking:
- identify the uses of technologies in everyday life and use real or imaginary technologies as props in their play
- use information and communication technologies to access images and information, explore diverse perspectives and make sense of their world
- use information and communications technologies as tools for designing, drawing, editing, reflecting and composing
- engage with technology for fun and to make meaning.
Experience plans and videos
For age groups: early communicators (birth - 18 months):
For age groups: early language users (12 - 36 months):
For age groups: language and emergent literacy learners (30 - 60 months):
For age groups: language and emergent literacy learners (30 - 60 months).
Learning foci and teaching practices
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Writing Analysis Tool. Available at:. Charles Sturt University, Monash University.
This tool provides a set of rubrics to analyse children’s writing from Early Childhood through to Primary school, across the following domains: Text Structure, Sentence structure and Grammatical features, Vocabulary, Spelling, Punctuation, and Handwriting/Legibility.
Becoming a Writer – A Digital Story


This section explores the benefits of engaging children in reading experiences and the infinite opportunities this presents for developing language and emergent literary experiences.
When we read with children we work to co-create understandings of texts and how they relate to our world.
For an exploration of how emergent literacy learning foci (e.g. concepts of print, phonological awareness and phonics) can be embedded within this teaching practice, see:
Reading with children (emergent literacy)
The benefits of reading with children for language development
The benefits of reading with children of all ages for their language (and general) development cannot be overstated. Reading with children allows for engaging, authentic and language-rich interactions. When they are read to by educators, children are supported to:
- learn new concepts and vocabulary
- learn new grammar in an authentic way
- hear clearly articulated sounds and words
- hear about new ideas, concepts, places, people, cultures and situations
- learn about how texts work, and how we use language to communicate in more
- sophisticated ways.
Children engage with a range of texts and get meaning from these texts:
[they] view and listen to printed, visual and multimedia texts and respond with relevant gestures, actions, comments and/or questions.
- VEYLDF (2016)
Reading experiences allow for small group and individual interactions, supporting and strengthening relationships between educators and children, having fun, and enriching children’s learning and their lives.
Texts for different ages
When choosing a book, think about:
- the age, interests, understanding and language skills of children
- what language (sounds, vocabulary, grammar) you would like to highlight and embed
- within the book reading experience
- how the characters, events, and messages within the story will appeal to children
- the length of the book.
For an overview of types of children’s literature (including ICT texts) in the learning focus, see exploring and creating texts.
All children’s literature should:
- engage children emotionally
- invite involvement
- provide opportunities for interaction by educators to increase children’s understanding of the book
- be aesthetically pleasing and use interesting illustrations/photographs.
Other suggested features of children’s literature suitable for different ages and levels of learning and development include:
Early communicators (birth - 18 months)
- light and sturdy so they can be held by the infant
- colourful bright pictures that are clear and identifiable
- textures/flaps/cut-outs/puppets/mirrors/sound makers to make reading more interactive
- nursery rhymes and songs with repetition and rhythm
- stories that are relatable
- stories that have repetition.
Early language users (12 - 36 months)
- simple stories with a beginning, middle and end
- a few characters – people, animals, toys
- not too long, but interesting storyline
- repetition and catchy phrases children can join in with
- opportunities to predict what will happen next
- non-fiction texts introducing concepts like colours, numbers, shapes, categories
- rhymes, poems or songs (longer than for early communicators)
- engaging pictures or photographs.
Language and emergent literacy learners (30 - 60 months)
- longer and more intricate stories
- non-fiction texts about everyday routines, feelings, or introducing new concepts
- rhymes, poems or songs (longer than for early language users).
Adapted from: Birckmayer, Kennedy and Stonehouse (2008); Campbell (2009)
Pedagogies for developing language during reading experiences
In this section, we will discuss how reading experiences can be opportunities to embed interacting with other foci (e.g. sounds, vocabulary, grammar, stories and narratives, and higher order language).
During this kind of reading experience, the role of the educator is to use the text as a stimulus for exploration, description, discussion, and storytelling.
Dialogic reading (Whitehurst et al., 1988) or interactive read alouds (Barrentine, 1996) are approaches to reading with children which allow for dynamic and active engagement with the text to develop children’s language.
Key features of dialogic reading and interactive read alouds include:
- not expecting children to sit and listen to an educator reading a book from beginning to end
- asking questions and making comments
- following children’s interests in parts of the book, encouraging them to point, label
- comment and describe what they are seeing
- encouraging children to answer questions, comment, and share their reactions and feelings during the reading
- facilitating active meaning making throughout the reading experience by engaging children using comments, descriptions, invitations to interact, and questions
- building children’s background knowledge of the words used and the context of the book before reading the text, and consolidating it after reading
- discussing the text before, during, and after reading.
These reading pedagogies allow educators to interact with children during reading experiences in a child-centred, responsive, and intentional way.
Key questions to engage children
Asking open and inviting questions is an effective strategy for engaging children in the reading experience.
Here are some key question types to ask during book reading (or storytelling) (Sipe, 2008):
- Factual questions:
- check which facts from the story the children remember, for example: ‘Where does the Lion live?’ or ‘Who ate the bears’ porridge?
- check whether children are understanding the story, for example: ‘How do you know that?’, ‘But who was it this time?’
- invite children to reflect or interpret
- For example: ‘What do you think is happening here?’, ‘How do you think the Lion is feeling?’, or ‘Oh no! What’s happening now?’
- use open questions to encourage children to share their ideas
- For example: ‘What else could she do?’ or ‘What do we think about that?’
- Predicting questions:
- encourage children to consider what might happen next
- ‘What will the Lion do now?’ ‘What do you think is going to happen?’
Bring the book to life
- clearly pronounce the words of the story
- include all the parts of the narrative (setting, characters, plot, resolution)
- create emotional suspense by emphasising certain words and phrases, and by using pauses.
- use your voice to support children to make meaning
- use changes in your pitch (voice highs and lows), tempo (speed), and rhythm
- show changes in the emotions of characters
- use pitch and speed to build suspense and enhance the story meaning.
Gestures, body language and facial expressions:
- point to the book and use gestures to emphasise ideas in the text
- use animated facial expressions that match with the emotions within the book.
- enhance the reading experience by using different-sounding voices, movements and gestures to voice different characters.
(Fellowes & Oakley, 2014, p. 91)
Highlighting oral language during reading experiences
While reading with children, educators can take the opportunity to highlight various aspects of language, in order to develop children’s ability to interact with others.
Educators can choose any text that:
- appeals to children
- facilitates interaction and engagement
- provides opportunities for embedding vocabulary, concepts, grammar, and text understandings (fiction and nonfiction).
Examples of ways of highlighting learning foci for interacting with others are listed below.
Making meaning and expressing ideas
Choose books with engaging pictures and print, to allow for multiple opportunities to:
- engage nonverbally (e.g. eye contact, gesture, joint attention (Patterns of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft).
Some books you choose may have only a small amount of print and more illustrations making it easy for younger children to identify pictures and concepts:
- An Australian ABC of Animals by Bronwyn Bancroft.
Read books based on familiar stories to allow children opportunities to closely comprehend the text, and re-enact the story in play afterwards:
- e.g. Goldilocks and the Three Bears illustrated by Anna Walker.
- Encourage children to say sounds from the book along with you
- Emphasise the sounds of animals, vehicles, or nature from the books, and encourage children to imitate these sounds
- Clearly pronounce the words you are reading at an even and steady pace, allowing time for children to hear and process each word
- Allow pauses between some words to allow children to join in and attempt “reading” some words.
Concept development and vocabulary
Use concept books to work on concept development:
- Colours of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft
Books that explore different concepts in detail can spark discussion and introduce new vocabulary:
- highlight new vocabulary and concepts in picture books, and encourage children to find objects, actions, people, and animals they know
- use open questions like: ‘Tell me what you can see…’
Books with engaging and detailed illustrations allow children to explore and describe what they see.
Educators can facilitate children’s engagement with new vocabulary and concepts.
- Read books which provide multiple descriptions or qualities of characters, objects or events
- Where is the green sheep? by Mem Fox has a range of different kinds of sheep (including blue, red, bath, bed sheep etc.)
- Daddy Kiss by Margaret Allum lists different kinds of kisses:
Introduce prepositions (location words) using books like, We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, and Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers.
We went snorkelling at Turquoise Bay. At Tunnel Creek we waded through an underground river. We stood in the shallows at Monkey Mia to see the dolphins. We flew over the Bungle Bungles in a helicopter without any doors. We hiked between the round red domes of Kata Tjuta. We floated down Katherine Gorge, below towering ochre cliffs. From Are We There Yet? By Alison Lester. Text and illustrations © Alison Lester, 2004. Published by Viking
For example: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly by Pam Adams.
- Read books with longer and more complex sentences
- Use books that play with numbers and plurals, like One Sheep, Two Sheep by Patricia Byers:
Stories and narratives
Use books with relatable characters and storyline, to help children make meaning from the story.
- plans and attempts
- resolutions within stories
- what the story was about
- what happened in the end. eg. Go To Sleep, Jessie! By Libby Gleeson Jessie is screaming.
Every night she does this. Ever since she moved into my room. ‘Be quiet,’ I say. ‘Go to sleep.’ Jessie keeps screaming. ‘If you stop screaming,’ I say, ‘I’ll let you hold T-Bear.’
I climb out of my bed and pass him to her.
Text copyright © Libby Gleeson 2014, Illustrations copyright © Freya Blackwood 2014 Published by Little Hare, an imprint of Hardie Grant Egmont
Explanations and sharing information
Use concept books to introduce topics for discussion, (Big Machines by Lissa James.)
For older children, use non-fiction texts to explore ideas and concepts on any topic:
- Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman
- Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea by Steve Jenkins
- Island: A Story of the Galápagosby Jason Chin
- Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
Higher order language
Read books with similes and metaphors, like Growl Like a Tiger by Alison Lester:
- I can
quack like a duck, on a bright sunny day
cluck like a hen, that’s ready to lay.
- I can
rumble like a lion if I’m tired and grumpy
growl like a tiger when I’m wide awake and jumpy.
Growl Like a Tiger by Alison Lester, first published by Allen & Unwin, Australia in 2012
Use books that are humorous and discuss what makes them funny, e.g. from Ivy Loves To Give by Freya Blackwood:
- Ivy loves to give.
- Sometimes her presents are the wrong size,
- don’t sit properly,
- taste funny,
- or feel strange.
Theory to Practice
Bruner’s (Bruner; see Wood, Bruner and Ross, 1976)concept of “scaffolding” is an important idea underpinning how reading with children works. This means that children learn new language from more capable peers or adults, by engaging in shared reading experiences (Vygotsky, 1967).
The two pedagogies included in this section are dialogic reading (Whitehurst et al., 1988) and interactive read alouds (Barrentine, 1996), which are supported by theories of language learning. Both approaches to reading with children allow for dynamic and active engagement with the text to develop children’s language.
Reading with children is also an opportunity for telling stories, which allows us to use language to “create possible and imaginary worlds through words” (Bruner, 1986, p. 156). When children engage in reading experiences with adults, the ‘magic’ (or literary response) comes from the interaction between the written word (text), additional media (e.g. props, costumes, sound effects), the storyteller and the audience.
The storyteller and the additional media they use play a big role in bringing a story to life.
We can think about how these four factors can affect children’s meaning making when engaging in book reading experiences. We can also change these elements to embed language strategically into the experience.
Numerous studies demonstrate the importance of reading with children for their current and later oral language development (Curenton & Craig, 2011; van Druten-Frietman et al., 2016; Mol et al., 2008, 2009; Zevenbergen & Whitehurst, 2003; Wasik, Hindman &Snell, 2016).
Fisher, Flood and Lappand Frey(2004) found that clear learning intentions, selecting engaging books, and encouraging independent exploration and discussion of books before and after reading experiences are effective strategies.
Piasta et al. (2016) reviewed literature that supports that educators' use of language stimulation strategies during dialogic reading and found it particularly beneficial to their language-learning.
For narrative books, educators should choose texts that:
- have believable characters but should not be stereotyped
- [are] straightforward to help preschool children understand the story; and (3) use the characters’ language, conversations, and ideas that reflect the situation.
- Saracho (2017, p. 561) citing Galda, Sipe, Liang, and Cullinan (2014).
For information books, educators should choose texts that:
- [are] accurate and readable
- have a simple format with attractive illustrations
- present information that represents scientific knowledge.
- Saracho (2017, p. 561) citing Galda, Sipe, Liang, and Cullinan (2014).
Language stimulation for further information.
Links to VEYLDF
Outcome 1: identity
Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities:
- use their home language to construct meaning
- develop strong foundations in both the culture and language/s of their family
- the broader community without compromising their cultural identities.
Outcome 2: community
Children become aware of fairness and begin to understand and evaluate ways in which texts construct identities and create stereotypes.
Outcome 5: communication
Children engage with a range of texts and get meaning from these:
- view and listen to printed
- visual and multimedia texts
- respond with relevant gestures
- actions, comments and/or questions
- sing chant rhymes, jingles and songs
- take on roles of literacy and numeracy users in their play
- begin to understand key literacy and numeracy concepts and processes, such as the sounds of language, letter–sound relationships, concepts of print and the ways that texts are structured
- explore texts from a range of different perspectives and begin to analyse the meanings
actively use, engage with and share the enjoyment of language and texts in a range of ways
- recognise and engage with written and oral culturally constructed texts.
Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media to share the stories and symbols of their own cultures and re-enact well-known stories.
Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work and begin to make connections between, and see patterns in, their feelings, ideas, words and actions, and those of others:
- develop an understanding that symbols are a powerful means of communication and that ideas, thoughts and concepts can be represented through them
- begin to be aware of the relationships between oral, written and visual representations
- begin to recognise patterns and relationships and the connections between them
- listen and respond to sounds and patterns in speech, stories and rhyme.
Children use information and communication technologies to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking:
- use information and communication technologies to access images and information,
- explore diverse perspectives and make sense of their world
- engage with technology for fun and to make meaning.
Experience plans and videos
For ages - early communicators (birth - 18 months):
For ages - early language users (12-36 months):
For ages - language and emergent literacy learners (30-60 months):
For ages - language and emergent literacy learners (30-60 months)
Links to learning foci and teaching practices:
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