Early Childhood Corner: Preschoolers' Mathematical Reading

Source abstract

Preschool children sometimes like to read books. They go to the reading area; select a book, perhaps one that the teacher has recently read to the group; and proceed to read it. Of course, they can almost never sound out or recognize individual words. Instead, they try to construct a story that more or less resembles their recollection of the teacher's reading or depicts their interpretation of the picture on the page.