They go through an emergent literary process. Black also stresses that all children are at different literacy levels. She says her main job is to improve her students writing and to help them take the next literary step. She works with them individually or in small groups. Occasionally, she will go over some vocabulary words with the entire class, but she does not work with the class as a whole on writing, because they are all different.
Parents have a lot to do with how well and how early their children begin writing.
Parents can limit their children s use of language by excluding them from family conversations and by depriving them of books. Well this sounds great, but as the author points out, some parents in poverty areas have low-literacy levels themselves. This makes it hard to read to the child and name different objects, as they should. Poor families cannot afford to buy their children books, when they are scrounging just to put food on the table. For this reason the Even Start Family Literacy program was started.