The teacher's drum is accompaniment enough, but it is fun to have a piano sometimes. Recorded music brings added richness. Preparing Children for Reading Children in kindergarten learn to appreciate in many ways what it means to be able to read. They learn to identify their own names and sometimes those of their friends on their various belongings. Sometimes they ask questions that can be answered only by consulting books.
Children watch their teacher and listen carefully to what is read.
They observe that the teacher frequently writes notes so that important items will not be forgotten. Children's vocabularies expand in kindergarten. The children talk to each other, to the teacher, and to visitors. They delight in knowing the correct term for everything they see. In this environment, in which they can question freely, their vocabularies will probably increase rapidly.