At the end of each school day Miss Thomas, a preschool teacher, asks the children to talk about what they did that day at school. As the children describe each event, she writes it on large chart and then reads it back to the class. This is a good literacy activity because it primarily promotes their

A) basic understanding of the alphabetic principle.
B) awareness that speech can be represented by writing.
C) awareness of the relationship between syllables and the spoken word.
D) basic understanding of word boundaries.


B

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