Cognitive, language and learning delays contribute to difficulty with literacy development, but environmental factors also play a role.
What does research say about the role of make-believe in children's literacy development?
Clay also emphasized the importance of the relationship between writing and reading in early literacy development.
However later tests demonstrate that literacy development becomes stunted when hit with longer and more complex words later.
She is a leading researcher and teacher educator in bilingualism, bilingual education, literacy development.
Special focus will be on literacy development in the very young.
It shows that literacy development consists of more than learning skills such as handwriting, decoding and spelling.
It is refreshing that the book examines literacy development from the child's perspective.
"But the most important part of Head Start, the president believes, is literacy development."
"There is no evidence that children's language play when using mobile phones is damaging literacy development."