How do children learn to read and write in a DAP classroom?
Literacy learning exists on a continuum that begins at birth and continues as children learn to talk and listen, as they move from scribbling through invented spelling to conventional writing, and from “reading” stories they remember to competent reading. As with other skills, children go through the stages of literacy learning in a predictable sequence, but each child progresses at his own rate. DAP supports this by offering both a rich variety of materials to use, many opportunities to practice skills, and adults that support each child at his own level and help him move to the next step. The classroom environment also supports literacy learning by offering a literacy-rich environment that contains a lot of meaningful print, materials to read, and materials to use in practicing writing. Skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, vocabulary development, and text comprehension are supported in the DAP classroom as adults share good literature with children and as they supp
