Five-Year Old Joey Exhibits Several Key Indicators of Emergent Literacy

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

A) Lack of knowledge of print processing
B) Limited emergent writing skills
C) Immature narrative skills
D) All but C