NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Succeeding in School: Essential Features of Literacy Development. Improving Literacy Brief
Direct linkDirect link
Baker, Scott; Turtura, J.; Gearin, B. – National Center on Improving Literacy, 2017
Reading skills provide the foundation for academic success. From the beginning of school, students should be taught different ways of using language to help them learn and communicate about academic content. This brief discusses two areas of literacy development that students must learn so that they can do well in school: "foundational…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Skills, Language Skills, Alphabets
Learning about Print in Preschool: Working with Letters, Words, and Beginning Links with Phonemic Awareness
Direct linkDirect link
Strickland, Dorothy S.; Schickedanz, Judith A. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2004
Help young students master concepts of print, phonemic awareness, and alphabet knowledge--the key predictors of early literacy success and school readiness. This resource will show what children need to know about print in order to become successful readers, how to connect children's development with learning about print, and how to provide a…
Descriptors: Phonemes, School Readiness, Oral Language, Child Development
Children Learning To Read: A Guide for Parents and Teachers.
Itzkoff, Seymour W. – 1996
This nontechnical guide for parents and teachers examines learning to read from infants' babbling to the fluent reading of children reading independently for pleasure. Chapter 1, "Baby Speaks," describes language development in infancy. Chapter 2, "Our Alphabet: Language by Ear and by Eye," presents the alphabetic system and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Dyslexia, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy