Literature for Little Lambs: Introduction

Literacy: the ability to read and write.

How important is it to focus on literacy for preschoolers?   Is it even practical from an academic standpoint, since they are only beginning to make marks on paper and hardly even know the alphabet, let alone how those letters combine to make words?  Probably not.  And yet...you can study literature with preschoolers by simply reading to them.  And if you add a tiny bit of thought and structure to this time, you can ease them into early literacy quite naturally.

The easiest way to introduce little ones to literature is to read to them.  I know.  You are wondering why I state the obvious. 

Because I want you to start there, and then go a little beyond that point to see how really profound that can be.

Just taking five minutes a day to read a few books to your child can have far reaching benefits.  Not all of them will be academic...and yet, in the long run, they will.