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Profillet, Lucas; Laffage-Cosnier, Sébastien; Vivier, Christian – History of Education, 2022
Reading methods are valuable cultural and educational objects. They guide students into the world of the written word and, since the end of the nineteenth century, they have associated letters, sounds and words with illustrations. In French schools, in the reading methods published between 1880 and 1960, the word 'boxing' was often associated with…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Educational Philosophy, Alphabets, Textbooks
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Lonigan, Christopher J.; Allan, Nicholas P.; Lerner, Matthew D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
The importance of the preschool period in becoming a skilled reader is highlighted by a significant body of evidence that preschool children's development in the areas of oral language, phonological awareness, and print knowledge is predictive of how well they will learn to read once they are exposed to formal reading instruction in elementary…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Educational Needs, Oral Language