Early Literacy Skills

Abstract

Early literacy skills are related to many developmental areas of children such as language development and motor development. The development of children's early literacy skills affects their future development of literacy. Therefore, teachers should promote children's early literacy skills. In addition, the activities of conscious parents with their children positively affect their early literacy development. Based on these, it is important to address the issue of early literacy. For this reason, the definition of early literacy and concepts related to early literacy, the importance of early literacy, the factors which affect early literacy skills, the development process of early literacy, educational approaches related to early literacy, promotion of early literacy skills are included in this book chapter.