Child Development and Emergent Literacy

• Published in: Child development Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 848 - 872
• Main Authors: Whitehurst, Graver J., Lonigan, Christopher J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.1998; University of Chicago Press; Blackwell; University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc
• Subjects: Achievement; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child Development; Child Development and; Child, Preschool; Children; Cognitive Development; Developmental Psychology; Early Literacy; Emergent Literacy; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Infant; Language Development; Learning; Letter Recognition; Literacy; Male; Motivation; Orthographies; Phonemes; Phonological Awareness; Phonology; Preschool children; Preschool education; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Public Policy; Reading; Reading Ability; Reading Achievement; Reading Acquisition; Reading Improvement; Reading Instruction; Reading Skills; Research Needs; Vocabulary; Young children; Human; Social environment; Hand writing; Reading; Language; Language development; Review; Social class; Educational schedule; Child; Precursor

Emergent literacy consists of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental precursors to reading and writing. This article offers a preliminary typology of children's emergent literacy skills, a review of the evidence that relates emergent literacy to reading, and a review of the...