During the preschool years, letter knowledge appears to progress from reciting the alphabet, to printing and recognising one's own name, to identifying, labelling and printing letters of the alphabet (Bialystok, 1992; Byrne & Fielding-Barnsley, 1989; [Mason, J. M], 1980). Many parents report explicitly teaching their children the names and/or sounds of letters and how to print them, and provide their children with alphabet blocks, books, and friezes. For example in Haney and Hill's (2004) study, 71% parents of children ages 3 to 5 reported teaching letter names and 65% reported teaching letter sounds. Similarly Levy, Gong, Hessels, Evans, and Jared (2006) found that parents reported involving their children in printing their names and learning or practising letter names and sounds a...
... vocabulary, syntax, background knowledge of facts and concepts; knowledge about print concepts and g... by Bryant, Bradley, McLean, and Grassland (1989) who found that children who knew more nurse...