Assignment task:
1. You have been asked to create a newsletter for families explaining how Early Childhood Teachers support language and multiliteracy learning in ECE
2. Start with a brief introduction, explain your understanding of language learning, emergent literacy learning and multiliteracy learning in ECE to families (perhaps provide some definitions of these and explain how this looks like in ECE to parents)
3. Make a list of the main ideas you would like to discuss in the newsletter (think about what we have covered in the unit so far with regards to children's language and multiliteracies learning). Important components to include:
A. The strategies that ECT would use to support language & emergent literacy & multiliteracy learning and development (eg: how would ECTs use play-based approach to support this learning? How would ECTs use a play-based approach to include/support children with English as an additional language to enrich their language, emergent literacy & multiliteracy learning?)
B. How would ECTs construct a multiliteracy-rich environment? What's the importance of the ECT's role in constructing a multiliteracy-rich environment? (eg: how would a multiliteracy-rich environment promote communication, social interactions, language, multiliteracy learning...?) Describe how you as an ECT would set up such environment (you could include examples of learning experiences) - remember, you are writing to parents.
C. Following the above point, with such a multiliteracy-rich environment being created, how are children's language and multiliteracy skills/learning influenced by their environment, significant others, societal influences?
4. Write a paragraph on each idea, explain and justify your ideas with support from literature (minimum 4 references are required)