Words have meaning. Words are used to tell stories. The words tell about the pictures. Children can make their own stories using words and pictures. Stories have a sequence.
Stories have characters, actions, and settings.
Stories have a beginning, middle, and end. We read words on a page from left to right. We read from the top of the page to the bottom. There is one to one correspondence between written and spoken words. Each word we say can be written down, using one or more letters of the alphabet.