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, Emergent literacy REFERS TO CHILD'S BELIEFS ABOUT AND EXPERIENCES WITH READING
AND WRITING PRIOR TO FORMAL INSTRUCTION.
print motivation Being interested in and enjoying printed materials
print awarenes interest in print; pretending to read
listening and oral vocabularies words understood when heard; words used in speech
narrative skills child's spoke or written description of a real or fictional event from the past, the
present or the future; ability to retell or describe events
letter knowledge the ability to identify the letters of the alphabet
phonological awareness an awareness of and the ability to understand and manipulate the sounds of spoken
words.
forms the foundation of future reading and writing emergent literacy
development.
alphabetic principle written words are composed of letters and and that groups of letters represent the
sounds of spoken words
phonemes The sounds letters represent - the speech sound
graphemes written symbol - letter
4 dimensions of language speaking, listening, reading and writing