PAT Update: Parents as Teachers and Literacy, An Essential Connection

Parents As Teachers' unique contribution to literacy development is that it brings research-based information (grounded in both neuroscience and developmental research) to parents of very young children. This knowledge helps them understand how they can impact their childrens development and provide them rich, emerging literacy activities. PAT recognizes that literacy and learning to read are progressive skills so PAT begins prenatally, and teaches parents about the steps along the way. This information brief for professionals outlines the research behind the PAT program and it's link to literacy.

Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with early literacy literacy reading on August 19, 2010 #