Early Literacy

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This essay discusses the article, "Childhood Education" by M. Neumann and D. Neumann, which explores different means of enabling children to develop reading and writing skills at a young age. The paper relates that the article explains how children acquire language and literacy skills in different ways and that different activities promote different skills. The earlier a child is subjected to reading, the more likely they are to develop better reading comprehension skills later in life. The paper further relates that, while parents do not specifically need to engage their child in formal learning, they can encourage their child's reading and writing skills through reading stories to them and by other informal means.

From the Paper:

"The study comparing students' and parents' perspectives suggests that simply having a cognitive window during the time of language development is not enough if it is not associated with a supportive home environment in which reading, either formally or informally, is encouraged. Children become exposed to books at home and develop vocabulary from them, as well as comprehension, which are later tested and measured at a certain grade-level. Apparently, students who are able to read words successfully in the first grade are more likely to develop reading comprehension skills later in life. It is important to make correlations between children's lives at home and their lives within institutional learning along the lines of literacy and its proven relation to language development."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Neuman, M and D Neuman (2009). More than just storybooks. Childhood Education.

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