The importance of prerequisites and screening precoce in the school of childhood

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Published: Jul 15, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2015.n2.v1.337
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Margherita Maniscalco
Universidad de Extremadura
Caterina Martorana
DIDA, Centro di Psicologia
Barbara Caci
DIDA, Centro di Psicologia
Vicenza Muratore
Dirigente Scolastico, I.C. Mattarella-Bonagia

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This contribution aims to underline the importance of some cognitive skills, called prerequisites, which are involved in the acquisition of reading and writing skills such as: knowledge of the alphabet; phonological awareness; the automatic rapid name (RAN); phonological memory and visual processing. Numerous researches, including international ones, show the importance of the exercise of such abilities within the kindergarten also for the purpose of preventing the development of learning difficulties and / or real disorders in the subsequent academic career of the child. Furthermore, the implementation of didactic interventions aimed at the development of such cognitive prerequisites favors the increase and / or recovery of the instrumentalities of the writing. In this scenario, it becomes essential to reflect on the methods of early screening that can be activated within the nursery school and on the related assessment tools that can be used. As a consequence, some of the main psychometric instruments published in Italy, from 1999 to date, have been reviewed for the evaluation of the prerequisites of bed-writing skills in students starting from 5 years of age.

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Maniscalco, M., Martorana, C., Caci, B., & Muratore, V. (2015). The importance of prerequisites and screening precoce in the school of childhood. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 1(2), 219–232. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2015.n2.v1.337
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