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Nothing in education is more important than making sure that every child becomes a reader. Being a reader opens doors to all of the opportunities that education and life have to offer. Everyone who interacts with a young child is a teacher. As pre school teachers and childcare and researcher on early childhood care and education, you have both the wonderful opportunity and the important responsibility to teach and nurture our youngest children. The years from birth through age five are a time of extraordinary growth and change. It is in these years that children develop the basic knowledge, understandings, and interests they need to reach the goal of being successful learners, readers and writers.

All young children deserve experiences that will help them to achieve this goal. You play an important role in ensuring that no child is left behind. You spend many hours with children and the right kind of activities can help them tremendously. You can be especially helpful tot hose children who have limited learning experiences at home.

This book draws from scientifically based research about what you can do to help children to develop their language abilities, increase their knowledge, become familiar with books and other printed materials, learn letters and sounds, recognize numbers and learn to count. Many examples of strategies you can use for teaching these skills are included here. Also included examples of ways to create an environment in your pre-school classrooms that will nurture children’s natural curiosity and their jest for learning. Throughout this book you will find the conversations between teacher Mrs. Reeta Mishra and Jhansi the child to enhance their learning during everyday activities. This book is developed on the basis of research on my daughter Jhansi and consulting with the experts of the early childhood care and education.