Emergent literacy is a new term to conceptualize early reading and writing. This means that children attain knowledge about language, reading, and writing before they enter school.Children begin to learn from the day they are born. Interacting with their caregivers, they develop vocabulary and language which is rudimentary in the beginning but becomes increasingly complex as they grow.A child keenly observes things around, listening and absorbing and trying to make sense of the environment around it. In homes where the environment is rich with language in different oral forms, the child quickly develops a rich vocabulary and acquires the grammar of the language.In order to achieve this, the parents need to constantly talk to the child, talking about what they are doing and repeating words and sentences relevant to the situation.Parents can help to develop the childs vocabulary by pointing to things, people, signs, and symbols, print in and around the house, or during short trips outside the house and talking about them.The tradition of telling stories, singing songs, using rhymes and playing with sounds of the language goes a long way in developing the childs oral language. Children get an understanding about their own language and how it works.When children listen to stories that have a lot of conversations and dialogues, they perceive the printed text first as an extension and representation of oral language.Later they begin to notice the difference between written language and the spoken language and develop an appreciation for the written language in the text they read or are read to.Not only this, if parents and children discuss the characters after the story is read, this helps the children to make sense of this world, and understand various aspects of life and living.Hence, it is clear that strategies (a) and (b) best support emergent literacy.