Development of reading and writing skills in early school children

Abstract

The objective of this article was to know the elements present in the development of literacy in children of the Initial Education stage. The methodology used was framed in a documentary design, for which a review of specialized studies in the field of preschool education was made, psychological theories that allow describing learning at that level. The research findings refer to the development process of basic reading skills, such as reading speed and comprehension of the texts read, is linked to fluency in dictation-taking skills, which was located at a higher level than that of comprehension and writing of reading sentences. It was possible to verify that a fundamental part of the development of children lies in phonological recognition, so that in this way they can comprehensibly write words and phrases.