Literacy Timeline

By cmmatula

  • Rousseau's work titled Emile

    Recommends a natural education for children

  • Pestalozzi

    Natural elements and informal instruction
    (year from Google.com)

  • Froebel's philosophy

    Coined kindergarten aka children's garden
    (year from google.com)

  • Morphett and Washburne

    Child must be "old enough" for reading instruction

  • B.F. Skinner's Behaviorism

  • Maria Montessori's learning system

    Used the senses to promote learning

  • John Dewey's philosophy

    Where we get the concept of child-centered education

  • Emergent Literacy

    Marie Clay

  • Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development

  • Lev S. Vygotsky's Theory

    Intellectual development happens as children gain new schemas

  • Learning to Read an Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children

  • Using Multiple Methods of Beginning Reading Instruction

  • National Reading Panel Report

  • No Child Left Behind

  • Reading First

  • National Early Literacy Report

  • Literacy Development in the Preschool Years

  • Race to the Top

  • Common Core State Standards

  • Works Cited

    Morrow, L. M. (2015). Literacy development in the early years: Helping children read and write, 8th ed. Pearson.