This is accomplished when children communicate specific information and share thoughts and ideas as well as organizing their environment, and locating and recording important information and events. Pre-School affords children the chance to explore many functions of reading and writing and forms of written language. Young children express themselves through words, movement, drawing, painting, scribbling, sculpture, building, dramatic play, and music. In pre-school we play with rhyme, rhythm and listening while singing and chanting to develop their phonemic awareness. Our pre-school classrooms attempt to balance the attention to the meaning of written language and phonemic awareness to lay a foundation of early emergent reading skills which will be built upon in the Kindergarten Program.
Teachers try to read at least one story each day to their students.
The stories usually coordinate with the theme or letter that we are currently working on. Kindergarteners are introduced to fiction, non-fiction, and fantasy. Each day children experience reading in many other forms including poetry, our news, fingerplays, and songs. Kindergarteners are immersed in environmental print in their classrooms. Students have the opportunity daily to choose and look at a variety of books and stories independently.