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Teaching Reading and Writing: Emergent Literacy · Print Awareness

How young children discover how print works, from book handling and directionality to words, spaces and punctuation, and how adults can foster it.

Teaching Reading and Writing · 25 questions

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1. According to the emergent literacy perspective, when does a child's literacy development begin?

  1. Once the child can name every letter
  2. From infancy, through everyday contact with print
  3. When formal instruction begins in first grade
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Answer: From infancy, through everyday contact with print

Emergent literacy treats the scribbles, pretend reading and book handling of the early years as real literacy development, not as pre-reading to be waited out.

2. A famous 1931 study led many schools to delay reading instruction until children reached roughly what mental age?

  1. About eight years
  2. About four years
  3. About six and a half years
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Answer: About six and a half years

Morphett and Washburne's study fed the 'reading readiness' idea that instruction should wait for maturation, a view emergent literacy research later challenged.

3. Which researcher introduced the term 'emergent literacy' and studied how young children learn the conventions of print?

  1. Lev Vygotsky, the Russian psychologist
  2. Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist
  3. Marie Clay, the New Zealand researcher
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Answer: Marie Clay, the New Zealand researcher

Marie Clay used the term in her 1960s research on New Zealand children and later built Reading Recovery and the Concepts About Print assessment.

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