Nationwide Practices and Perspectives on Early Literacy Activities in Daycare
Abstract
In the United States approximately 6 million children (about twice the population of Arkansas) between the ages of birth and five attend some kind of daycare outside the home. Daycare is a spectrum that comes in the form of home centers to child learning centers that provide an educational setting typically equipped with materials and resources tailored to support various aspects of child development such as language, social, behavior, cognitive and literacy. Children between the ages of birth and five spend about eight to ten hours per day in daycare, five to six days a week. The daycare environment impacts a child’s language due to the development that occurs when a child’s environmental setting is absorbed, imitated, and learned from.
Subject Area
Early childhood education|Health sciences|Language
Recommended Citation
Amador, Analaura, "Nationwide Practices and Perspectives on Early Literacy Activities in Daycare" (2024). ETD Collection for University of Texas, El Paso. AAI31299471.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/dissertations/AAI31299471