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The paper utilizes a brief literature review to assess what can be done to boost literacy rates amongst children in the first years of formal education - and what sort of curriculum will go the furthest in making the objective of optimizing early childhood literacy a reality. The paper explains that the reason why this topic is so relevant for the comprehensive study of early childhood curricula is that the skills not learned early in life may well be impossible to attain later in life. The paper describes how America is now saddled with a generation of youth who, while aspiring to be the leaders of tomorrow, lack the essential reading, writing and reasoning skills needed to achieve their dreams (Jameson, 2007).

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"The following paper will utilize a brief literature review to assess what can be done to boost literacy rates amongst children in the first years of formal education - and what sort of curriculum will go the furthest in making the objective of optimizing early childhood literacy a reality. The reason why this topic (early literacy) is so relevant for the comprehensive study of early childhood curricula - besides the obvious fact that the relative success of the former is dependent upon the effectiveness of the latter - is that the skills not learned early in life..."

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