Developmental Reading deals with the theories of child`s early stages of learning his progress to fluency in oral language, reading and writing, and the transfer of his home literacy to school literacy.
Marie Clay(1966) was the first one who used the term emergent literacy. Emergent literacy refers to the competencies and skills in early childhood.
Emergent or emerging means that the children are always in the process of becoming literate, probably since they are just few months old(Teale,1987)
Sulzby(1991) defines literacy as the reading and writing behaviors of young children that precede and develop into conventional literacy.



