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Literacy Software for Early Childhood Education

The document discusses two literacy software/web-based programs used in the classroom: Starfall and Alphabet Aquarium. [1] Starfall supports the development of early literacy skills like reading, language, communication, and numeracy. It engages multiple intelligences such as logical-mathematical and interpersonal. [2] Alphabet Aquarium assists children in recognizing capital and small letters and learning about animals. It also engages linguistic and interpersonal intelligence. The reflection questions whether literacy programs were used, and if so, which early literacy skills they addressed, such as social-emotional development, cognitive skills, and language learning.

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Literacy Software for Early Childhood Education

The document discusses two literacy software/web-based programs used in the classroom: Starfall and Alphabet Aquarium. [1] Starfall supports the development of early literacy skills like reading, language, communication, and numeracy. It engages multiple intelligences such as logical-mathematical and interpersonal. [2] Alphabet Aquarium assists children in recognizing capital and small letters and learning about animals. It also engages linguistic and interpersonal intelligence. The reflection questions whether literacy programs were used, and if so, which early literacy skills they addressed, such as social-emotional development, cognitive skills, and language learning.

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Observation Task 5: Literacy Software /Web-based Programs

Focus: Identify types of literacy software/web-based programs used in the classroom

Objective: To encourage student teachers to use various literacy software/web-based programs in the
classroom which support the development of early childhood literacy skills

Procedure: Familiarize yourself with the Observation Table: Documenting Computer Software / Web-
based Programs. Describe how each program/website that was used in the classroom supports the current
unit of study, the ADEC curriculum, and multiple bits of intelligence

Observation Task 5: Literacy Software / Web-based Programs


Table 5: Documenting computer software / Web-based Programs
Software Title Age Range Links to the ADEC Links to Multiple Comments
Curriculum Intelligences
 Made  Communication,  Logical-  This app is
it for Language, and Mathematical straightforward
age 5 Literacy: Intelligence: and clearly for
years it includes the recognize the children are
and reading and numbers, shapes under five
under. language skills and years old. Its
recognition the sizes. support
numbers, shapes  Interpersonal children to
Starfall free app and sizes. Intelligence: learn the
Children may having ability to colors,
have a interact with numbers,
conversation others effectively shapes and the
while using this while using the alphabet in
app. app. simple ways,
 Personal, Social  Visual-Spatial across domains
and Emotional intelligence: in the
Development: the children preschool. The
The children may having children also
use the app awareness of the challenge their
individual or in environment and self while
pair and helping the ability to doing the
each other’s. visualize activity in this
 Problem Solving, when used this app.
Reasoning and app.
Numeracy:
Children will try
to
recognize the
numbers and
shapes.

 Made  Communication, Linguistic  This app is


it for Language, and intelligence: straightforward
age 5 Literacy: children and enjoyable
year effective usage of
It includes the for children
and
reading and words. Besides this three to five
under.
language skills app learn the child years old. It
Alphabet Aquarium, ABCs
like phonics and knows the type of assists children
Learning, Letter Games A-
recognize the animals and to recognize
Z.
letters. members of the the capital and
 Knowledge and animal's body small alphabet.
Understanding of through the puzzles. Also, the child
the World: Interpersonal knows the type
Knows the type of Intelligence: of animals and
animals having ability to members of the
and members of interact with animal's body.
the animal's body. others effectively
while using the app.
Reflections on Observation Task 5: Literacy Software / Web-based Programs

1. Was there any literacy software/web based programs used in the classroom?
If there were, select (a); if there were not, select (b).

a) What did early childhood literacy skills the software/web-based programs


address?

 It’s developing children social and emotional skills, could children work in pair or
individual. It's developing the cognitive skills of children, while the child solving the
problem and recognized the alphabets, shapes, and numbers. Those apps were helpful
for children to learn across preschool. Those apps are supporting children to learn a
new concept in this life and develop their language, so according to what Jean Piaget
believe that the children they learning by doing easier.

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