The Alphabetic Principle and Concept of Word in Text: Two Priorities for Learners in the Emergent Stage of Literacy Development

Abstract

This article addresses the characteristics of learners in the emergent stage of literacy development and describes two instructional practices that facilitate the development of the alphabetic principle and concept of word in text.

Comprehension for Emergent Readers: Revisiting the Reading Rope

“…Explicit comprehension instruction cannot wait until children are independently decoding, instead the concept of understanding what is read must be introduced and taught at the same time. This waiting impacts our emergent readers in preschool, kindergarten, and early first grade (Bear, 2022;Gehsmann & Mesmer, 2023). Comprehension instruction with emergent readers has often been limited.…”