The Press for Achievement and the Promise of Preschool Literacy Experiences

Children acquire language proficiency and an understanding of literacy before they enter elementary schools. However, some children enter school without the skills needed to experience success with early reading instruction. Hadaway examines the critical variables of acquired proficiency in language and acquired knowledge of literacy that young children bring to the formal literacy learning process and suggests research-based instructional options for shaping preschool environments that create successful early readers.