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Direct linkLightsey, Gwyn E.; Frye, Barbara J. – Reading Horizons, 2004
This article focuses on practical classroom ideas for enhancing early literacy learning by teaching a broad range of metalinguistic skills. These skills include phonemic and word awareness, but focus largely on syntactic and pragmatic skills in order to give children a richer understanding of language and its functions. Theoretical background is…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Instruction, Metalinguistics, Emergent Literacy
