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Early Literacy Learning

How do young children learn to read and write?

• Bringing Books to Life: Book-related Dramatic Play in Young Children's Literacy Learning: In a literacy-rich preschool environment, Professor Debbie Rowe documented how children made spontaneous connections between their dramatic play and the books they read at home and at school.
• Read more about a recent project in Nashville public schools which is yielding interesting results in at-risk preschool children.