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Paradigms in Teaching and Literacy Pedagogy Explained Through Selected Learning Resources
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Introduction
    In order to see children functioning as well groomed adults in society, it is significant to assist them at primary level to develop their listening and reading skills (Ministry of Education, Guyana, 2020). As literacy pedagogy, one must learn and understand linguistic skills to analyze the communication steps. Listening to various modes of teaching is one of the primary steps that significantly contribute to enable a child learning the course syllabus in the best manner possible (Ministry of Education, Guyana, 2020). It is more like comprehending personal speech moves as a child; if a child listens attentively to what is taught in classroom, he or she will be able to identify mistakes in his or her speech later. Active listening and reading altogether entertains the educators as well as to reach to the core essence of learning, the perfect outcome is achieved when good communication skills are established through active listening to the topics and then, reciting them in the perfect manner as well (Ministry of Education, Guyana, 2020).
    The following is a selection of three resources that can be used to serve the purpose of making students ranging in two categories, from birth to five years and sex to eight years with a view to develop good listening and reading skills. For birth to five year age category, The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and Ball rhymes of alphabets can be used, as analyzed further. In the same way, the movie Jungle Book by Disney can be shown to the children belonging to six to eight year age category. While the first two resources will assist children in learning about coupling the words and with basic grammar lessons, the movie will guide young learners to know the importance of coordination, working in a team as well as how to develop leadership skills along with learning how to make small and witty phrases in language like Mowgli and other characters do in the movie.
Template One, Resource One: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Resource Reference Details
Carl Eric, 2019, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Puffin E-books. Print.
Target Age Group
The resource will be presented in the age group of birth to five years.
Description/Summary
The resource is a story told in the form of verse. Carl imagines about a caterpillar that is born hungry. On Sunday, an egg is well laid off on the ground out of which, a hungry caterpillar pops out. He is so hungry that he cannot restrain himself from eating right from the time of his birth. There are multiple things that he keeps on eating for the whole week. The list of eatables that the hungry caterpillar takes include an apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, five oranges on Friday, and on Saturday, a chocolate cake, one ice cream, one pickle, one piece of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake and one slice of watermelon. However, eating so many things at a time causes him stomachache. The next day completes his one week life as it is Sunday and he goes to eat just one leaf and feels better on that day. In the best part of the poem, Carl mentions that the Caterpillar builds a cocoon for his rest for a while; he eats nothing for that period and once it is complete, he breaks off through a hole in cocoon and goes out flying as butterfly. The poem ends on a happy note, showing how the life of butterfly is complete starting from an egg.
Analysis of Linguistic Features
The Hungry Caterpillar contains some interesting word management. In terms of linguistic precision, Carl uses simple language and names of eatables from daily life of human beings. It is easy to explain the objects like apples, plums, Swiss cheese or oranges because children can directly visualize them. The words of the poem are simple and attention can be shifted/switched from one line to another quite easily by children of elementary level. For example, what caterpillar ate is easy to remember because there is no change in the first few words ‘he ate’ since it is seen as a pattern in the majority of lines. The repetition of words is frequent in poem, making it easy to recite by young learners. The sentence ‘but he was still hungry’ is used four times in the poem, showing the scale of hunger that caterpillar feels. Additionally, it is in the natural sense of objects like...