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Title: More Than Just Storybooks: Promoting Emergent Literacy Skills in the Home (For Parents Particularly) (Report)
Author : Childhood Education
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 196 KB

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The home environment provides children with their first literacy experiences. Parents are thus well-placed to facilitate the development of emergent literacy skills in their children before formal reading and writing begins at school. These emergent literacy skills include print awareness, motivation to explore print, shaping and writing skills, alphabet knowledge, and phonological awareness; the latter two being the strongest predictors of future reading ability (Adams, 1990). Parents would benefit greatly from an evidenced-based approach to the use of methods that promote emergent literacy skills in their preschool-age children. Parent-child Literacy Interactions