This assignment required me to look at two pieces of student writting and Analyise them using VELS and WA First Steps Writing Continuum.
_“‘What is the use of a book’, thought Alice, without any pictures...’ ”(Hill) is a quote from Lewis Carroll’s book ‘Alice’s adventures in Wonderland’; these words spoken by Carroll’s young protagonist Alice exemplify the importance of illustrations in children’s literature. For young children like Alice picture books are vitally important as a young child cannot comprehend all the information that is given through the complex text in long novels. Picture books however offer the information that cannot be given through text through the illustrations (Hill). For beginning readers the illustrations can help them understand the story and help them link the text to the illustrations on the page. An example of this relationship between text and illustrations can be seen in the book ‘Olivia forms a band’ by the author Ian Falconer. In this book we can see examples of how illustrations and text work together to enrich the reader’s comprehension and understanding as the illustrations in the book are relevant to the text on the page.
_Literacy involves not just writing but reading and speaking and listening as well and in the early years especially they are all interconnected. This Essay will focus on examining the theory around language and beginning literacy, it will also take a look at theories from researchers such as Vygotsky and Luke and Freebody and the ideas that they developed such as Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development. It will also look at the relationship that exists between oral language and early writing. The last thing that will be looked at in this essay will be my reflection of my learning and of the process of analysing students writing and writing this essay.
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