Review of Article on Early Childhood Literacy by Hay and Fielding-Barnsley Article Review by Top Papers

The paper relates that this scholarly work focuses upon the benefits of two home-based literacy interventions - language-focused intervention and skills-focused intervention - and suggests that both are very good at developing emergent literacy skills so that a child has more success with formal literacy training. The paper asserts that although the article is clearly-written and well-organized, it is also bereft of any apparent original research and relies heavily upon two previous studies for its findings. The paper maintains that the article is a literature review that almost seems to be attempting to prove itself as something else.