Emergent Literacy and DAP

Chapter 3 of the Intentional Teacher does an excellent job tying together the prerequisites to reading Emergent Literacy and Developmentally Apporpropriate Practices. It has refreshing teaching strategies that go beyond glueing beans on an alphabet letter B or tracing the letter B on a worksheet. For example under the topic of print knowledge utilize what the author calls letter links. Pairing a child's printed nametag with a picture or even better a real object or 3 dimensional representation of that object and the printed name of that object. " A letter link for Aice might be ant and one for Pedro could be paintbrush."