Literacy Before Schooling

adult Anabela analyze appears attributed beginning Buenos Aires candy cards chil child cognitive conceptualization conflict correspondence cues cursive deciphering dialect differentiation distinction drawing dren duck duck steps elements example graphemes graphic characters Gustavo illustration indicate initial instruction interpretation knowledge la nena label learning to read letters linguistic looking mamá María MC children meaning nene newspaper nouns object oral language PAPÁ PATEA patea la pelota pato phoneme picture pollo poyo predictions preschool problem pronunciation psychogenetic psycholinguistics reading act reading activity reading and writing represented Response Type sapo segments sentence silent reading similar six year olds social sound value Spanish specific story Storybook support material syllabic hypothesis teacher tell tence thing tion transformations Translator's Note upper-case print verb villa miseria violent colli vowels words writing system written language written representation written string written text