‘Learning to read’ is a big topic for another e-Newsletter, but the foundations of reading lie in story—recounting stories from our own experience, retelling traditional tales and making up stories.
From infancy, we read and tell stories to children; stories about them and their family, stories about where we’re going and where we’ve been; stories about what will happen next ... and we introduce them to the wonderful world of ‘book stories’.
Sharing books is beginning to learn to read, whether the adult is with a child in the home, or with a group of children in an early learning setting.
In the preschool room at a setting in South Australia, educators plan a range of ‘book experiences’ over the course of the day: