Mary can tell you the sound the letter "f" makes.She can also tell you the sounds the letters "b","t" and "k" make.Mary has knowledge of

Five-year old Joey exhibits several key indicators of emergent literacy development,but not all.His receptive and expressive language skills in the five subsystems of language are intact.He demonstrates phonological awareness,an age-appropriate lexicon and has a sense of story structure,but Joey does not recognize that print is read from left to right,he does not recognize sound-symbol correspondence and when given a pencil,he will scribble,but does not make any recognizable letters or numbers.Joey's area of weakness in literacy development is

There is a reciprocal relationship between oral language and literacy.