Language: Creating a Literate AEnvironment for Reading and Writing Development

Abstract

This writing provides some information about how to
create a literate environment for reading and writing
instruction. Hopefully, it will be useful for the general
and special education teachers of kindergarten and
primary level pupils. The inclusion is a discussion of
those aspects of the preschooler’s rich literate
environment which promote reading and writing
development and specific suggestions for teacher
modeling for organizing and managing the
classroom, and for providing a range of meaningful
reading and writing opportunities. Instruction which
incorporates these suggestions is intended to extend and
refine children’s written language skills acquired prior to
school and to provide a transition from the informal
instruction offered in the home environment to the formal
instruction found in the school.