Literacy Links

Thoroughly comprehensive and practical, Literacy Links offers strategy after strategy to help literacy-deprived young learners. Robb has found that giving students the opportunity to experience family storybook reading at school works best. She offers four ways to reconstruct that experience and develop emergent literacy by

• organising small separate kindergarten classes that respond to the children's needs and progress
• training adults to conduct family storybook reading within a regular school day building the literacy knowledge of small groups through a balanced read-aloud program and writing workshop
• setting up a summer school program for children who would benefit from more reading and writing.