Emergent literacy environments: Home and preschool influences on children's literacy development

Authors

Kathy Sylva, University of Oxford
Lydia L. Chan, University of Oxford
Edward Melhuish, University of WollongongFollow
Pam Sammons, University of Oxford
Iram Siraj-Blatchford, University of WollongongFollow
Brenda Taggart, University of London

RIS ID

94658

Publication Details

Sylva, K., Chan, L. L. S., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., Siraj-Blatchford, I. & Taggart, B. (2011). Emergent literacy environments: Home and preschool influences on children's literacy development. In S. B. Neuman & D. K. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook of Early Literacy Research (pp. 97-117). New York, United States: The Guilford Press.

Abstract

The field of early literacy has enjoyed tremendous growth over the past two decades, as evidenced by the impressive body of work documented in the three volumes of this handbook. In line with contemporary trends in developmental science, as eloquently summarized by Morrison (2009), conceptual, methodological, and analytical advances have presented new research priorities and possibilities.