Early Childhood Educational Activities Conducted In Preschools and Its Effects on Reading and Writing Ability of Children

Abstract

A stratified random sample of 120 children was selected from total 20 urban and rural preschools.  Total 6 students from each preschool and two Anganwadi from each village were selected randomly in the age range 4-6 years for studying educational activities conducted in preschools and its effects on reading and writing ability of children. The urban preschool teachers had recognition of conducting reading and writing activities of preschoolers for their further development in various aspects while such awareness was not noted among rural preschool teachers and very few had responded for it. Few highly significant differences were noted for conducting activities as two words reading, rhyming words games and visual perception of basic concepts among urban and rural children. The highly significant results were noted for scribbling, collage activity, writing in sand tray, tracing shapes and alphabet, writing two word sentence.