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Early Literacy:The Key to Unlocking Illiteracy?

by Oldschoolteach

Early Literacy:The Key to Unlocking Illiteracy?

Posted April 4, 2012 by Oldschoolteach in Blogging about Education, Education Blog, Elementary Education Blog. Tagged: early literacy, Education, importance of early literacy, Literacy, reading aloud, Ready for Kindergarten. Leave a Comment

As I mentioned in an earlier post, every Tuesday,  I head over to the day care center across the street from my school. I am a member of Read Aloud DE. What do I do? I read. I read for about an hour to eager 3,  4 and 5 year olds. They are thrilled when the Reading Lady comes, and I am just as delighted as they are! We sit for about 5-10 minutes, enjoying a good story.

Yesterday I read “The Silly Goose” to six students about 3 or 4 years old. As I read the book to each of them, I became more and more aware of the differences in language development.   In terms of age, they are within days and months of each other, but the differences were