The literacy understandings, values and skills that children bring to early childhood settings
are based upon their home and community experiences. If what they bring is recognised …

The literacy understandings, values and skills that children bring to early childhood settings
are based upon their home and community experiences. If what they bring is recognised …

The importance of children experiencing a successful transition to school is well established
in research literature. Central to this is including the children themselves in the conversation …

This paper examines how literacy is defined and enacted by teachers in early childhood
programmes pointing to the differing ways views of early literacy impact practice. It is argued …

The quality of children's literacy experiences in the years prior to school impacts on their
continuing literacy development (ALEC 1995). In a recent, government-funded research …

Early literacy is a complex field of study, complicated by its interdisciplinary nature. Linguists,
early childhood educators, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists all contribute …

The face of early childhood education continues to change. In Australia, the national early
childhood guidelines, Early Years Learning Framework (2009) and the National Quality …

This paper considers how policy developments in the last decade in England have impacted
on and'shaped'the curriculum for literacy in early childhood and views about how young …

There is growing recognition that literacy learning takes place in the years prior to formal
schooling and that young children develop literacy-like behaviours through exposure to …

Current research into emergent literacy suggests that children learn about literacy prior to
formal education. Children develop the knowledge and skills of literacy within the context of …