„Longitudinal research has consistently shown that early literacy skills are strongly predictive of later cognitive and educational outcomes. Early literacy skills are also associated with a range of positive social-emotional and economic outcomes throughout people‘s lives, as well as their overall sense of well-being. Children‘s emergent literacy skills are a fundamental determinant of their later success in schooling and beyond. Receptive language skills at age five are associated with competent reading by age 10, as well as education attainment in adolescence and adulthood. Emergent literacy levels predict later employment and earnings, and overall socio-economic status. The development of children‘s emergent literacy skills is also linked to upward social mobility.“
Rowena Phair, MA, International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study. Assessment Framework (2021), S. 31.