Competency 8-Research Visual/Multimedia

This chart shows a child's reading level according to their age. The different colors represent different children who learned to read at different ages. The blue line represents the child who had early literacy skills taught from a very young age. The green line shows a child who learns to read at the age of five, which is the average age of children starting school. The red line shows a child who learned to read later in life, closer to age seven. Notice the child who learns early literacy skills from a young age has a higher reading level then the child who learns to read at age five, and the child who learns to read at age five has a higher reading level than the child who learns to read later in life.
This chart is one way to prove that children who acquire literacy skills early in life will have higher reading achievement later in life. This chart can be found in the article Research Related to Early Literacy: Early Readers Increase the Gap Over Other Students Over Time by R. Stainthorp and D. Hughes at http://www.yourbabycanread.com/images/reading-progression2.jpg.