The importance of preschool reading and writing

It is important that as parents and educators, we awake to young children reading and writing to and to make it one of our major concern, to promote it so it becomes part of all of our educational system, families and communities. Introduction to reading and writing should begin at a very early age, when the child can neither read nor write, and should be first introduced in an non conventional way. As a matter of fact, reading and writing should be part of a child's life long before he or she starts school. School should not have the full monopoly on children's development and new less conventional methods needs to be adopted in order to help children learn a language. The awareness of reading and writing can be done through different types of books, science books for kids, poetry books, image books for babies and younger toddlers, etc. The period between 0 and 6 years is marked by what the authors refer to as the emergence of writing (Strickland and Morrow, 1989; Giasson, J, 1995; Theriault, J., 1995).