30 minutes
Adults
Instruction guide (1997)
PREVIEW VIDEO

This is an important video for educators, parents, day care workers, health care workers, librarians- anyone who cares for children before grade one. Marilyn Jager Adams, an expert on early literacy, provides research-based information on the experiences and skills needed by children for success in beginning reading.

DID YOU KNOW?

What children know about reading when they enter first grade determines how well they will read at the end of first grade. How well children read at the end of first grade is one of the strongest predictors of their success, not just in reading, but in later ability scores, whether they stay in school and their future earnings.

What children need to know about reading before first grade includes:

THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET:

Can they sing them, say them, write them, recognize them?

THE SOUND STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE:

Are they aware of rhymes, syllables, and phonemes?

THE PLEASURE OF BOOKS:

Have they had books read aloud to them regularly and interactively?

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