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Button, Stuart; Millward, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2005
In this article, the authors discuss the importance of oral language formation as it relates to literacy and the development of children's skills, knowledge, and understanding with respect to reading and writing. Describing stories as the link between everyday language and literate forms of language, they explain why children need the experience…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Emergent Literacy, Story Reading, Writing (Composition)