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=__**Learning how to read and write**__=

Learning how to read and write is a fundamental part of early child hood, and can insure success in an individual’s future. It is important for parents to invest in their children’s literacy capabilities before school, however due to reasons beyond a child’s control, students can come to school virtually illiterate. Teachers can accommodate to this by organising children, according to their literacy abilities, into specific groups or levels. Teachers can then work and spend more time with those students that need extra encouragement and assistance in the literacy program. Teaching reading and writing in early childhood consists of teaching students phonemic awareness, alphabet and alphabetic principal, reading comprehension, writing processes, revising and editing and multiliteracies. These topics are made up of techniques used to make learning literacy easier and better understood. The ability to read and write fluently enables further education in general, and in other areas, and is the first step to further success. Being unable to read and write, completely illiterate, in the western world today, would make life very difficult and would alienate that individual from the rest. The ability to read and write is often taken for granted in adult hood, but indeed with out the ability to read life would be very hard. That is why teaching reading and writing in early childhood is so important as results now in this area can show what lies ahead for that individual.