The heart of this presentation is orality and its importance in language / literacy development as well as social and emotional development. Children have to hear language in order to learn language and orality. Storytelling, chants, and fingerplays serve as the necessary preparation for what we call literacy.
The definition of orality and literacy within the context of early childhood and how storytelling, chants and fingerplay stimulate every aspect of the triune system will be discussed with emphasis on how these oral and physical inventions provide children the opportunity to construct images and symbols or, form pictures on the wall of their minds that make language and literacy real and meaningful. Children must have experiences to attach words to. Further, the bonds that are established between the adult and the child while participating in this poetry of play, and its paramount importance, to be included in presentation.