Emergent Literacy Coaching positively impacts these strategy goals:
SUMMARY
Emergent Literacy Coaching Programs are an effective state strategy to impact:
Emergent literacy coaching programs promote nurturing and responsive child-parent relationships by bolstering parent-child conversational turns, improving parental speech quantity and quality, and increasing child-initiated conversations. These programs also improve parental knowledge of early childhood development and positive parenting. States can support emergent literacy coaching programs by partnering with community organizations that implement these programs.
Emergent literacy coaching programs provide education and training to parents on how to promote their children’s emergent literacy skills, which are defined as the skillset infants and toddlers need to develop before they can learn to read and write effectively in the future. These programs focus on increasing conversational turns—or interactive back-and-forth talk—between parents and children, improving the quantity and quality of parental speech during interactions, and increasing child-initiated conversations. Additionally, parents who participate in emergent literacy programs may gain knowledge of early childhood development and demonstrate more positive parenting skills during play.
States can support emergent literacy coaching programs by funding programs directly or partnering with community organizations that implement these programs. The current evidence base does not provide clear guidance for how states can best support emergent literacy coaching programs, and therefore, these programs are classified as a strategy—rather than a policy—for improving outcomes in the prenatal-to-3 period.
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Recommended Citation:
Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center. (2024). Prenatal-to-3 policy clearinghouse evidence review: Emergent literacy coaching programs. Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University. https://pn3policy.org/policy-clearinghouse/emergent-literacy-coaching-programs
Updated October 2024
