Literacy in nursery education - Robin Campbell

Good nursery schools provide activities that encourage physical, intellectual, social and moral development but this does not mean that preparation for literacy is not equally appropriate. Evidence demonstrates that many nursery age children are interested in reading and in making letters - particularly their own name. So although nursery schools are not didactically teaching reading and writing they can encourage both activities by providing the setting and the tools and by modelling both the reading of books and the writing of names, messages and classroom print. This book describes models of good practice in nursery schools and pays particular attention to talking about reading stories to young children.