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The students that step into our future classrooms will have developed their own unique background in literacy. Their knowledge will have been affected by a number of sources, including their family and the wider community, their socio economic background, race and ethnicity. Having taken this into account, some children will be able to write their name and read certain books while others will struggle with what seems like the easiest of literary tasks. We, as their teachers need to be able to understand that all children are different, rather than treat them all the same. As a future teacher, I believe it important to be able to connect with our students and form a relationship with them to be able to understand the level they are currently at in all aspects of the learning areas, not only literacy. We need to be able to notice changes, or the lack of, in our students in order to help them learn and blossom into functioning members of our community. Technology is an ever increasing part of young children's life. By completing this wiki I am hoping to not only further my knowledge on teaching early literacy, but also my knowldge of computers. A wiki is something I would never have normally done, so hopefully I will master (well at least semi-understand!) how to create and use a wiki so one day I can incorporate it into my classroom and pass on my knowledge to students. The broad topics I will focus on are Oral development, Reading development and Writing development. So feel free to click on a heading in the tool bar to find out more, hopefully interseting, information. Cheers, Nicole Clark, student number 700172509