Children develop literacy skills by reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Minnesota Children's Museum is a valuable resource that provides fun opportunities for children to practice and refine these skills and become ready to read. We typically think of young children learning to read and write when they enter the classroom. We now know that becoming a confident reader starts before formal education begins. It is more complex than just memorizing the letters and their sounds. Before children walk, they sit up, crawl, and pull themselves up to stand.