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emergent literacy

emergent literacy noun: the reading and writing concepts, behaviors, and dispositions that precede and develop into conventional reading and writing.

Noun

emergent literacy (uncountable)

  1. the reading and writing concepts, behaviors, and dispositions that precede and develop into conventional reading and writing.

Questions about emergent literacy

What does emergent literacy mean?
Emergent literacy means the reading and writing concepts, behaviors, and dispositions that precede and develop into conventional reading and writing.
What part of speech is emergent literacy?
Emergent literacy is a noun.

Words near emergent literacy in the dictionary

  1. emergency transponders
  2. emergency vehicle
  3. emergency vehicles
  4. emergent
  5. emergent counting
  6. emergent literacy
  7. emergentism
  8. emergentisms
  9. emergentist
  10. emergentistic
  11. emergentists

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