„Measuring children’s emergent literacy skills can provide important information about where policy makers, teachers and parents could focus attention and resources in order to promote positive and equitable early literacy development and, in turn, improve children’s life chances. The emergent literacy skills measured in IELS are those most closely related to and predictive of later literacy achievement, as well as other positive educational and later life outcomes.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Early Learning and Child Well‑being (2020), S. 81.