Developing Language and Literacy Understanding
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Speech and Language Issues, Speech and Language Development
This chart compares the understandings demonstrated by various forms of developing language and literacy. While the talking and writing forms do not occur at the same age, a comparison of the understandings and explorations shows the similarities in the learning process
| Oral Language | Written Language | Understanding |
| Babbling and cooing | Scribbles | Exploring the medium |
| Language intonations | Linear-repetitive forms | Refining the form |
| Native language sounds | Letterlike forms | Cultural relevance |
| First "words" (Mama) | Letter names as sounds | Partial accuracy |
| "Telegraph" sentences | Simplified phonics | Simplify for success |
| Creative Grammar | Advanced invented spelling | Overgeneralization of "rules" |
| Adult speech | Standard spelling | Formal structure |
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Let's Begin Reading Right: A Developmental Approach to Emergent Literacy, by M.V. Fields & L.A. Groth & K.L. Spangler, 2008 edition, p. 31.
© 2008, Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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