Introduction
Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character, a subject
of a nursery rhyme with a relationship theme. It
started as a riddle where the answer was an egg
and is known as a personified egg. The language
in the verse is right for it enhances the pre-
reading skills of children. It teaches children how
language works, encourages literacy in children,
and builds more skills. The characterization of
Humpty Dumpty is that it is a big egg with human features.
Print awareness
With the rhyme of Humpty and dumpty, the nursery pupils can get print awareness, which makes
them understand the forms and convection of printed material. The children are supposed to read
the rhyme from left to right. Reading the written verse facilitates literacy, reach the
environment, exposure to print, real-life experience, and meaning literacy in the children. To
teach the children on print awareness of this rhyme, I should read to the children with large print,
use a relatively large printed paper that the attention of the children is drawn by copy and letter.
I would also label several pictures of Humpty Dumpty and place them at the centers of the class.
The children should then use a pointer or their fingers to point the words as I read the words. I
should later look the words for them as they read.
For instance, the rhyme is in a book; I would take them through the cover page, the print, and
the back of the book. I would also show the children the difference in the papers of a book
because there are those with thin sleeves, and other has thick sleeves. They later can understand
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the title of the book" Humpty Dumpty," the author and the publisher of the book. They are not
aware of handling the text properly and the direction they need to follow, so as a teacher, I
should show them all that. Show the children the relationship between the print and the pictures
in the book. Tell the children what the story is about; ask them to show you the bottom and top
of the book, divide them into groups or teach them individually depending on their capabilities.
To increase the love of books in children as a teacher, I would tell them those books can take
people to new places and thus, they should handle them properly.
Poetry
In poetry, I will teach my children how to analyze the poem. I will let them understand the
different elements or features of a poem, such as metaphor, simile, rhyme, repetition, imegaery,
and rhyme. Humpty dumpty poems would help me point out all these features. When analysing
poems I would want them to understand the necessary information, meaning, forms, and poetic
techniques.
LESSON PLAN
Theme: Enhancing Children literacy development
Prior knowledge: The children already know how to read books
Major Learning Domain: Physical Fitness and Health Language Early Mathematics
Science Self and Society Arts
Other Learning Domains: Physical
Fitness and
Language Early Mathematics
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Health
Science Self and Society Arts
Content
Name of Activity : Can an egg sit on a wall?
Date : 24 th /11/2019 Venue
:
Classroom
No. of Children : 20 Class/ Age
Group
:
K2 (4-5)b years
Time of Activity : / am Duration
:
30mins
Objectives :
Knowledge: Children are able to sit the egg on the wall
Skill: children can observe the falling of the egg
Attitude: children can sit an egg on the wall
Step by Step :
Procedures
1. Introduction
1. During the school rhyme week, my children are supposed to recite a
Humpty dumpty poem.
2. We will then carry out an activity on Humpty dumpty. We will sit an
egg on a wall and find out if it can sit there.
2. Process
3. I will pick a piece of egg, use a marker pen to add a mouth, nose, and
eyes that it looks like a human
4. I will then place the egg on the wall.
3. Conclusion
5. The egg will fall and break into pieces
6. I will ask the children to collect it for me and return it to its original
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state.
7. It would be possible, and thus, they will understand that an egg can
break, and once broken, no one can return it to its original state.
Activity to Enhance Children’s Literacy Development
The class has 20 pupils with their ages ranging from 4-5 years old. About a third of the course
has the average ability, and some and about three of them have low capabilities. Teachers try to
put more attention on the kids will low skills mostly when doing class activities so that they may
understand and that they don't lag behind. We understand their skills by assessing the children.
Assessing children Literacy Development
The reason why I assess my children is to understand their special learning needs as early as
possible, and it also enables me to know what to consider when creating an activity for them. I
also want to understand their strenghths and weaknesses so that I can remember how to help each
and lastly inform parents on the learning of the children that they may help them back at home.
Principles of Assessment
As a teacher, there are certain tenets I am required to follow to assess my students. We assess
children to show their curriculum objectives and development needs. We don't do it alone but
with some other teachers to get good results . When carrying out assessments, we observe the
child, recording data than analyzing the data we have collected in the learning environment but
not exams. We assess throughout the year that the results are best. I recognize my children and
appreciate them when they do well to motivate them, identify their potential, and make
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developments, and other times, guide and support them. The assessments we do are close to
activities our students do in school e.g. can an egg sit on a wall, and it is suitable for student
development level. We assess them concerning authentic classroom writing and tasks and any
other kind of learning as per the curriculum. By so doing, we will be able to know what the
children can do and what they know.
Children show signs of emergent literacy development when they show interest in literacy
related events, focus on print, when they read and write for personal purposes, have competence
in oral language competencies and they have phonological awareness. The later are the signs I
would want to see in my children when we are done on our activity of sitting Humpty Dumpty
on the wall.
There is much fun to explore nursery rhythms with children. They will explore Humpty Dumpty
in Pre School during nursery rhymes week, and children will have a blast. When designing the
activity, I need to consider the safety of the children, if the event will build the memory of the
children understand if they have capabilities of
performing the task and can it enhance their literacy
development.
The children are to explore if an egg can sit on a wall. I
will ask the children to answer and record in their books.
Then we will do the activity practically by trying to sit
Humpty Dumpty on a brick wall. The children might
find it so funny if I let the egg fall and crack. I should
then repeat the same idea a few times as the kids repeat
the rhyme. It will be a lot of fun and a great way to retell the nursery rhyme with live-action.
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Authentic Assessment/Assessment of Children's Performance
After the children are done with sitting the egg on the wall, I will then do an authentic
assessment. This kind of assessment will enable me to reflect the actual learning, institutional
activities, and represent the world. I will carry out anecdotal observations of the children where I
will make forms that I will record their performances (Otto, 2015). The way will include the
child's name, purpose of observation, useful events in the observation, and the relative analysis.
Views that I am to make I will focus on the oral reading of the children together with their
dialogue. I would also use a portfolio to assess them authentically. I would pick the answers they
had recorded in their books if an egg can sit on a wall, ask them to write a Humpty dumpty
rhyme without referring anywhere and draw Humpty dumpty. I would later give them the
feedback I would have collected. With all this, I would be able to record the kids writing ability
and analyze it.
Portfolio
Video and Audio Recordings
Still assessing them using portfolio, I would decide to video record or audio record the children
as they read the Humpty dumpty rhyme. That way, I would be able to analyze the language of
the children with both audio and video. The video is most suitable for it enables me assess their
body movements, facial expressions, which is a lot of information for evaluating the child. I can
also use both of them to record myself while teaching that I would be in a position to access my
performance.
Interviewing
Interviewing my students is also a portfolio assessment where I would ask my students both
closed and open-ended question about Humpty dumpty rhyme e.g., what happened to Humpty
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dumpty? Where was Humpty dumpty seating? Who comes to assist Humpty dumpty? The use of
interview will help me understand if my students were following the story and if they have
understood the topic. I would later design a worksheet that matches the objectives of the
institution. I would have different sheets, one for the parent, for an individual child than for a
group of children. The main reason for this kind of assessment is that the child's ability can be
summarised in one worksheet, and the final results would be excellent for the kid and were
assessed with different criteria (Sinclair, 2005).
Checklist
I would also use a checklist that would have the list of child skills and development that they
have accomplished at the end of their study. The instructions I would give to them during the
course work would also be included in the checklist. I would also include the objectives of our
activity and that of reading rhyme that I would have before the original work. The later would
enable me to determine how the language of my children would have developed literally and the
development reach depending on the aged on their ages. Again I would have the checklist to
assess the performance of my kids to match the objectives of our school.
Simple Test
As a teacher, I would also set simple tests for my students to know their understanding of rhyme.
I would then give a norm referencing; give the overall performance of my students tested for
students with 4-5 years old and at their particular grade level. What can stir my need to give my
student a simple it is to get the parents n opinions about their children's performance by calling
them for a parent's day, simple conversation, and asking them questions related to the child's
performance. Having done the test, this would be a source of information to evaluate the
children's performance. The result I give would, therefore, be clear information to show the
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position of a child among other children. The simple test would enable me to know the parent's
expectation on their child's performance (Morrow & Dougherty, 2011). The questions I would
ask the parents would also will allow me to understand the childs performance back at home. I
would get additional information about the child's performance in child's meeting and informal
conversation with other teachers. The later will help me understand the performance of the child
as per the opinions of other teachers.
Running Record
To assess the reading of the rhyme by the children, I would also use a running record where I
would want to know the errors made by the children as they go through the verse and their
accuracy too. Ib children should read the rhyme loudly every kid alone. I will then record the
words they read correctly and those that they make errors. Obvious errors, omission of words,
meaning errors, insertion of words, refusal to pronounce a word, appeal for help, substituting
words with another, and repeating words are errors I would consider. I would, therefore, ask the
children to tell me what they read that mend sence to them and the meaning of various setences.
Correction they made during the reading process is not considered as an error. I would,
therefore, assess the suitable method for passing a book, nursery rhyme, a poem.
To generally promote literacy among kindergartens, I need to provide several opportunities that
can promote literacy. Carrying out demonstrations, exploring and experimenting,functional use
of language, and language-rich environment are some of the ample opportunities to promote
literacy in children. Utilizing the resources in the institution, providing an appropriate
development curriculum, and being flexible will help me develop the scholarship of the children.
The use of procedural activities, informal conversation, and independent activities are specific
activities for promoting emergent literacy development in my children.
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References
Morrow, L. M., & Dougherty, S. (2011). Early Literacy Development: Merging
Perspectives That Influence Practice. In Handbook of research on teaching the
English language arts (pp. 51-57). Routledge.
Otto, B. (2015). Literacy development in early childhood: Reflective teaching for birth to
age eight. Waveland Press.
Sinclair, J. P. (2005). The effects of explicit instruction on the structure of urban minority
children's academic writing. The Catholic University of America.
Appendix 1
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Description of Literacy Development in Children
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this activity was to:
Print awareness Exposure to print
Literacy-rich environment
Poetry Promotes reading and writing
Authentic
assessment
To evaluate the child's performance in the activities they have
done, reading and observation
portfolio
video and audio
interviews
checklist
simple test
Assess daily work performance
The teacher can analyze children's language
To assess children’s attitude towards their daily learning
To determine a child's performance according to school
objectives
The result is a piece of concrete information regarding the
position of the child
Running record Used to access the child's accuracy as well as errors