Can You Read This Message?

Greeting is a part of the daily routine at Glasgow Preschool. This time is an opportunity for your child's class to gather as a community and discover what is going to happen for the day. Our curriculum, High/Scope, promotes the use of the daily message (rather than calendar time or routine discussion of the weather) to support your child's literacy development as well as encourage purposeful discussion. The message board encourages your child to share thoughts with others (developing language skills), promotes shared reading experiences and teaches your child to function as part of a cohesive social learning group. Can you read this message?

Our daily messages use varied combinations of actual objects, signs, symbols and numbers. Glasgow preschool teachers recognize that interpreting signs and symbols is a process on the continuum of learning to read. Using numerals exposes your child to counting, ordinal numbers and number recognition. The message board provides information that is meaningful and relevant to your child and his/her classmates. Through this experience, your child has become more experienced in "figuring out" the meaning of daily messages, supporting reading comprehension skills. "Reading" these signs and symbols teaches your child that printed text conveys a message. This teaching strategy supports your child's emergent reading and promotes the beginning stages of understanding the alphabetic principle.

So... were you able to read the message above? If you need help, ask the expert - your child!!!

For further information about your child's literacy development in reading, please refer to English/Language Arts Standard 3: Demonstrates General Skills and Strategies of the Reading Process in your parent guide Building a Strong Foundation for School Success: The Kentucky Early Childhood Standards.