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Nurturing Early LearnersA Curriculum for Kindergartens in Singapore4VolumeCopyright 2013, Ministry of EducationRepublic of SingaporeAll rights reserved. This publication shall not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright information contained herein is correct at the time of : 978-981-07-8551-2Designed by LOUD! Productions Pte LtdCopyright 2013, Ministry of Education, Singapore1 Bethesda (Katong) KindergartenKay Poh Road Baptist KindergartenPCF Little Wings Buona Vista Childcare CentrePCF Pioneer (Block 654B)PCF Tampines East (Block 261)PCF Tampines West (Block 887)AcknowledgementsThe Ministry of Education wishes to thank Dr Melinda Eng Wah Yound for her professional guidance and invaluable are grateful to the principals and teachers from the following kindergartens and child care centres for their useful feedback and suggest

foundation for reading and writing. Reading Reading involves constructing meaning from print. Children generally go through the following phases (Chall, 1983; Ehri, 1995) when learning to read: • Pre-reading – Children first become aware that print carries a message. They use visual cues to make sense of print in the environment. For example,

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