Three-year-old stacy pretends to make a grocery list while in the car on the way to the grocery store. this activity reflects stacy's

a. phonological awareness.

b. animistic thinking.

c. private speech.

d. emergent literacy.

I believe the answer is: emergent literacy

emergent literacy refers to a situation when children already develop the awareness on the existence of reading and writing even though they still haven't learn to do both. E mergent literacy indicates that the children have entered the initial process of becoming a literate.