Literacy: Reading (Early Stages)

Abstract

Literacy is the ability to read and write. Early literacy development consists of a prealphabetic period wherein the child begins to learn about the nature and purpose of print; an alphabetic period wherein the child becomes conversant with the alphabetic code and acquires increasingly functional word identification and text processing skills; and an advanced alphabetic/orthographic period wherein the child masters the alphabetic code and becomes increasingly fluent in word identification and text processing.

Reading aloud: Eye movements and prosody

“…This approach gives us information on mental, linguistic and non-linguistic mental representations, which are activated on the processes required to recognize and decoding the print signal. The reader and reading processes have been thoroughly studied and a lot is known about what is involved (see, among others, [3] and [4]), but little is known about interconnected processes in reading.…”