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Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools, Ninth Edition
Betty D. Roe, Tennessee Technological University
Sandra Smith, Tennessee Technological University
Paul C. Burns, Late of University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Chapter Objectives
Chapter 2: Emergent Literacy

  • Discuss the relationship between cognitive development and language learning.
  • Understand the concept of emergent literacy.
  • List some features of a print-rich classroom environment.
  • Explain the influence of the home on a child's early language growth.
  • Discuss the roles of listening comprehension and oral expression in the development of literacy.
  • Identify some ways children learn to read in an emergent literacy classroom.
  • Explain how children's growth in writing occurs.


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