Literacy Development
After reading chapter two of Robert Slavin's Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice, I better understand human development and how to promote literacy development in elementary and middle school children. The chapter begins by discussing how development is defined. Development, as Slavin defines it, is how people grow, adapt, and change over the course of their lifetimes, through personality development, socioeconomical development, cognitive development, and language development (Slavin, 2020). There is a lot that goes into how a person develops. Still, throughout this chapter and history, the argument is whether the degree of development is affected by experience and whether development proceeds in stages. I see how researchers and psychologists believed in stages of development when they began research years ago. However, I think a child's development is determined more by experience and other environmental factors, but their genes are still significant. I also agre...