Literacy

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors strike by a recurring theme that draws the material together while reviewing the extensive literature available internationally on literacy. They use language-spoken or written-to communicate, and this presupposes an audience and a purpose to the communicative acts marked out by both spoken and written language activities. In a number of different ways, adults can support early years learners to use language for a wide range of purposes, while at the same time supporting them to familiarise themselves with the patterns of language that will help them in their later literacy development. Of particular interest in these early stages of writing development is that t..