Más allá de los métodos: las prácticas docentes para enseñar a leer y escribir (Proyecto APILE. Primeras conclusiones)

In the APILE project we start with two facts. The first refers to the knowledge that young children have about the written language. Before formal learning (in this case before 5 years). The second fact concerns the diversity of teaching practices. Both are the axes of research. In this first report we noted the objectives and phases of the project, and the results obtained in the first phase of its development. The overall objective of our work is to determine the nature of the relationship between knowledge that children bring with them, teaching practices that are in school and learning of reading and writing. To achieve this overall objective will proceed in three phases. In the first, already completed and we report in this paper, we focus on identifying teaching practices we found in our environment. So we collected systematic and reliable information on the diversity of practices in force in different geographic regions of Spain, for a detailed characterization of the types of practices used in classrooms in teaching reading and writing.