{"id":1318,"date":"2022-01-05T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/?page_id=1318"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:40:14","slug":"early-literacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/topic\/early-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1320\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/files\/2022\/01\/reading-for-meaning-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/files\/2022\/01\/reading-for-meaning-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/files\/2022\/01\/reading-for-meaning.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b>The Connection between Speech &amp; Language Skills and Literacy<\/b><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Speech and language skills and literacy skills are interconnected. \u201cLearning to read is heavily dependent on linguistic knowledge, specifically phonological knowledge for word decoding and language comprehension\u201d (Tambyraja &amp; Schmitt, 2020, p. 341). Children with language impairments are most at risk for literacy difficulties<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">(Botting et al., 2006; Freed et al., 2011; Tambyraja, Schmitt, et al., 2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Early Literacy includes <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/topic\/early-literacy\/learning-to-read\/\"><strong>Learning to Read<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/topic\/early-literacy\/phonological-awareness\/\"><strong>Phonological Awareness<\/strong><\/a> skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connection between Speech &amp; Language Skills and Literacy\u00a0 Speech and language skills and literacy skills are interconnected. \u201cLearning to read is heavily dependent on linguistic knowledge, specifically phonological knowledge for word decoding and language comprehension\u201d (Tambyraja &amp; Schmitt, 2020, p. 341). Children with language impairments are most at risk for literacy difficulties (Botting et [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8620,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1318\/revisions\/1328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/slp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}