You are meeting with a parent of a kindergarten student. She asks you if you could assess her son to determine if he was ready for reading instruction. You explain the idea of emergent literacy. What is your response?
a. You tell the parent that literacy development does not have a specific beginning but develops early in life and is ongoing. It is important for her to model literacy behaviors with her son.
b. You tell the parent that you will give her son a battery of tests to determine if he has the necessary prerequisite skills to begin emergent literacy instruction. It is important for her to wait for those results before doing anything.
c. You tell the parent not to worry because every child will reach a level of reading readiness, but that readiness emerges at different times for each child. It is important for her to wait until the child is ready before she begins modeling literacy behaviors with him.
d. All of the above
a
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