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When a child is raised in the environment with
lots of texts to explore, and if children are
involved in creating texts used in that
environment, their literacy develops much
better than in children whose opportunities are
scarcer. By text we mean children’s names in
the learning environment (on chairs,
cupboards) as well as all other texts in their
environment (signs, posters, advertisements
etc.), including texts in other languages, books
and short reading texts in reading centres and
lettering samples in writing centres.
A range of texts should be used – hand-written, computer prints and mass produced texts and
posters etc. Texts created by children should be deemed valuable, that also includes their first
scribblings and writing attempts (both hand written and written on a computer).
6-aastase Aro isetehtud kaart. Foto: õpetaja Jaana Koger.
