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Why Printing Matters in Kindergarten When students learn to print, they build cognitive, fine motor, and foundational literacy skills. When we print with fluency, we reduce our cognitive load and create more mental space to support the mastery of advanced literacy skills. Learning to print fluently in kindergarten is important because it lays the groundwork…

Oral language is the foundation of early literacy. Long before children can read and write independently, they develop language through conversations, listening, gestures, and shared thinking with others. James Britton (1970) captured this idea well when he wrote, “writing floats on a sea of talk.” In kindergarten classrooms, rich talk helps children build vocabulary, thinking…