Early literacy includes a number of key areas, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Fostering literacy in the earliest years helps children learn to read and write in their later schooling. Research highlights the impact of activities such as reading aloud, rhyming, singing, and talking with young children—beginning from birth—on literacy and language learning in childhood and beyond (Sinclair et al. 2019; Lawson-Adams, Dickinson, & Donner 2022). Further, research shows th...
