Literacy Timeline By smallsportia Period: 3500 BCE to 3200 BCE Pictograms Period: 3200 BCE to 800 BCE Cuneiform/Heiroglyphics Period: 800 BCE to 1450 Greek ABC’s Period: 1450 to 1454 The Epic of Gilgamesh Period: 1454 to 2020 Printing Press Period: 1917 to 1932 Thorndike Period: 1932 to 1940 Schema Theory Period: 1940 to 1950 The reading comprehension test Period: 1950 to 1954 Look Say Approach Period: 1954 to 1957 Brown Vs. Board of Education Period: 1957 to 1958 The Cat and the Hat release Period: 1958 to 1965 National Defense Education Act Period: 1965 to 1965 Head Start Program Period: 1965 to 1973 Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Period: 1973 to 1980 Children's Literature Assoiation Period: 1980 to 2010 Writing in Elementary Schools Period: 2010 to 2020 The role of the Literacy Coach
