Module 1 Discussion: The Stages of Language Progression

What surprised me or stuck out the most was:

There are a number of factors that influence early literacy development that we will delver deeper into throughout this course (Gollnick & Chinn, 2002). They include:

• Spiritual and religious beliefs, holidays and customs
• Geography, urban or rural
• Age of parents
• Socioeconomic status
• Disability
• Migration and time of arrival
• Ethnicity and Race
• Gender Identity
• Language

There are so many families that have multiple factors that a child's early literacy development can be severely hindered. To teach these students and ELLs requires a lot of planning and background investigation to meet them at their zone of proximal development.