This Issue’s Theme:
Literacy

Literacy is a key to early language development. At the preschool age, children use their ever-increasing language skills to become “big talkers.” Parents and caregivers of preschoolers can help them develop into readers and writers by playing with letters and their sounds, promoting dramatic play using characters from books and reading lots of books together.

Through their own daily experiences, preschoolers learn more and more about the way things work in the world. At the same time, they are able to use their ever-increasing vocabulary and language skills to share observations, ideas and imaginary worlds with other children and adults. Young children can be entertaining storytellers, engaging conversational partners and frustrating negotiators.

You can help your preschooler become an eager reader and writer through simple conversations and reading together. It helps to plan regular times to read with your young child and to talk together daily about things that interest them. You can turn everyday experiences such as waiting in lines or doing errands into conversation starters. In these ways, you prepare the youngster for reading and writing about the world.

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