Pre-reading skills of 3 year olds

 

Pre-reading and pre-writing skills are those that will help the child to learn to read and write later, for example, developing control over fingers and wrist muscles, eye-hand co-ordination and the concepts of right and left and up and down and discriminating sounds and shapes. Opportunities to practise these skills are important because in this period children are maturationally ready to learn. These skills will also prepare them for the coming school years where they will be