- Bridges to Literacy: Early Routines that Promote Later School Success

Rosenkoetter and Barton note that "the early years shouuld provide the infrastructure to support later learning of specific literacy skills. However, elementary schools may have to go back to these elements when a child has not experience in the early years" (p. 34). Eleven bridges to literacy are identified and meaningful ways to promote literacy development. The authors note that "although divides strategies for emergent literacy into 11 bridges, all come together in the play of the child, where emerging understandings are integrated, practiced, and tested in a safe environment" (p. 37).