Getting Your Child Ready for Reading and Writing

This PDF presentation highlights some common developmental milestones in emergent literacy skills for infants, toddlers, and preschool children.

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Reading and Writing Presentation [PDF] contains 33 slides that describe the common developmental milestones in emergent literacy skills for infants, toddlers and preschool children. This presentation was adapted from the newly revised ASHA brochure, "Getting Your Child Ready for Reading and Writing".

Cite this as American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2010). "Getting Your Child Ready for Reading and Writing". Available at www.asha.org/slp/schools. Reprinted by permission.

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