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Developing emergent literacy in infant schools: a laboratory experience for the construction of the written language

2017

Research, including the educational neuroscience, has highlighted the close relationship between emerging literacy and subsequent learning of reading and writing. Early verification of symbolic and linguistic skills is essential to support the development, and recovery strategies are to be prepared in case of early signs of difficulty. In some infant schools in the Palermo area we carried out a laboratory of the last 45 hours, according to a specific methodological setting, with a dual aim: a) developing the emerging areas of literacy in preschool, b) providing teachers with an objective approach to detect in children reading and writing readiness. The study investigated phonological, lexic…