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More than Just Storybooks: Promoting Emergent Literacy Skills in the Home
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Neumann, Michelle M.; Neumann, David L. – Childhood Education, 2009
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,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Parent Education, Parent Role
Write First, Read Later
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Chomsky, Carol – Childhood Education, 1971
Suggests that children should learn to read by creating their own spellings for familiar words. (NH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Reading, Linguistic Competence, Pronunciation
Families as Educators: Supporting Literacy Development
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Hill-Clark, Kantaylieniere Y. – Childhood Education, 2005
Families are children's first educators and play a critical role in young children's literacy development. Young children's success as readers is related to their early literacy experiences in the home. Family literacy practices determine young children's literacy skills prior to formal instruction. However, families may not be aware of best…
Descriptors: Young Children, Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Child Development
Where Children "Write to Read"
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Day, Barbara D.; Swetenburg, Jan Scott Owen – Childhood Education, 1978
Explains the British Infant School approach to the teaching of reading and writing, in which reading flows directly from the children's writing-which, in turn, is stimulated by virtually every aspect of the school program. Includes samples of the children's writing. (BR)
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Creative Reading, Creative Writing, Early Reading
On Reading (an ACEI Position Paper).
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Strickland, Dorothy S. – Childhood Education, 1979
A position paper which discusses different aspects of reading and its relation to school, home, and lifelong activities, and suggests instructional implications. (CM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Getting Children into the Literacy Club--And Keeping Them There.
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Searcy, Bill – Childhood Education, 1988
Calls for reforms in instructional practices and curricula control in literacy programs that disenfranchise five- and six-year-olds who have already served for months or years as active members of the literacy club. Illustrated by one child's early literacy and kindergarten experiences. (BB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Early Reading, Educational Practices
Kid's Eye View of Reading: Kindergartners Talk about Learning How to Read.
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Edwards, Linda H. – Childhood Education, 1994
Examined a kindergarten teacher's implementation of a whole-language program and her students' responses to questions about reading, such as, Can you read? What can you read? What is reading? and When did you learn to read? Seventy-five percent of the children indicated that they had learned to read during kindergarten or when they were…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
Parents as Volunteers: Storybook Readers/Listeners.
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Lancy, David F.; Nattiv, Amalya – Childhood Education, 1992
Discusses the development, implementation and implications of the Parent Assisted Reading Program at the Sunrise School in northern Utah which serves half-day kindergarten children. This program was designed to increase volunteer participation by parents in early (storybook) reading activities in the schools. (BB)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Full Day Half Day Schedules, Kindergarten, Listening Skills