Subtitle: A PreKindergarten Handbook. Know that language and play are a child's main tools for learning about the world and the most important tools for early literacy learning. This book carries the excitement of play into the introduction of reading and writing with nursery rhymes, poems, songs, and related activities that link the joy of play to the excitement of literacy learning themed text sets and book list organized by month topic, 12 inquiry projects geared at 3 and 4 year olds, 35 literacy and language lessons, frame work for both 3 and 6 hour school days and detailed descriptions and color photos of the characteristics of a PreK classroom.