Literacy Timeline

  • Rouseau (1712-1778

    Children learn through curiosity. He believed that children's early education should be natural. Giving children the freedom to be themselves.
  • Pestalozzi (1746-1827)

    Natural way of learning. Development of principles for learning connecting natural elements with informal instruction.
  • Froebel (1782-1852)

    Natural learning, First educator to design a systemic curriculum for children which included materials and objects.
  • Evolution of Theory 20th century

    Dewey Progressive Education, concept of the child-centered curriculum, Curriculum interest of children, integrating content areas.
  • Monlessori (1965)

    Sense and systems, learning about size, color, and shapes, using their five senses
  • Piaget (1969)

    Cognitive Development, stages of cognitive development, Piaget curriculum
  • Vygotsky (1978)

    Schema Acquisition, mental structures, zone of proximal development
  • Research Era (1980)

    Oral language development, family literacy, early reading and writing, research on early childhood literacy development
  • Balanced Comprehension Approach(1999)

    International reading association, BCA
  • Constructivism and Whole Language Instruction (2005)

    whole language instruction, integrated language arts approach, literacy environment

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