How Young Children Learn to Read

“Te Whāriki, the early childhood education curriculum (1996) requires teachers to support children to develop communication skills for a range of purposes, and to establish good foundations for literacy learning. These foundations are holistic in nature since for young children everything is connected to everything else. Children explore communication and literacy in many different ways, including through gesture and speech, print, music, the visual arts and movement.”

Download this short read to further understand how young children acquire literacy and reading skills written by Dr Anne Meade and Deirdre van Duyl.