EDRG 3344

Students can best learn language arts if they are given the opportunity to utilize many resources in order to broaden their abilities in reading and writing. Some such resources would be to read a story and then compare it to a movie about the story, doing hands on activities to make the story come alive for them, and discussing parts of the story such as the beginning ,middle, and end of a story. Language arts involves listening when a story is being read, talking about the story and sharing ideas, reading the story either aloud or silently, writing and the components of writing such as prewriting and revising, viewing information to integrate visual learning with literacy, and visually representing what they are learning or have learned. Children use phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic systems in Language arts so that they are pronouncing words and decoding words when reading, they are combining words and adding prefixes and suffixes, they learn meanings of words and study synonyms, anatonyms, and homonyms, and they modifiy their language according to situations. It is in these ways children assimilate the new material being learned or accommodating new information the build onto existing knowledge. By providing opportunities to build on skills already possessed, children can better learn the language arts through media, writing and reading activities, and discussion.