Importance of Literacy in Early Childhood Learning

by Ratul Puri Marketing Consultant

The right to education in India is not only the right to access education but it is about receiving quality education. In India more than half of the population is still illiterate and therefore it is very much important to focus not only in the availability and accessibility of education, but it should also be acceptable and adaptable. A quality education in India is today’s need as it the most powerful weapon to eradicate poverty and build a strong nation. According to empirical analysis, it reveals a strong positive relationship between education and economic growth. India has the full potential to use the demographic dividend of a large population in the school going age of 6-18, which is more than 25% of the total population to its advantage if the children can be imparted education both in private schools and government schools that prepares them to face the real world with confidence.

Primary education in India is very important to get a better start towards their quality life. A high quality of pre-school education either in private schools or government schools followed by an academically effectual primary school gives children’s growth a significant boost. However, children also need an inspiring early years home-learning environment to build upon.

Going with thorough research on quality education in India, the education research foundation has understood that it is the time to take collective as well as individual responsibility to remedy the present situation for a better and prospering nation.

Why Early Literacy is important?
From education skills to emotional and social skills, implementing reading into the daily routine has profound development effects. Benefits and considerations behind early literacy include:

Reading every day nurtures vocabulary, language, and early literacy skills.
It builds the child's confidence to work through challenges and persistence in difficult tasks.
It develops social and emotional skills, which are essential to school success.
Children who have read in their lives early have been found to do far better in school later on compared to children who are not exposed to reading.
Using reading, verbal communication, singing, and rhyme games have better literacy development.
Building literacy skills in early childhood allow children to learn and develop better reading skills easier later on.

Primary education in India plays a critical role in learning development.

Author’s Bio-
This article states about the importance of primary education in India for the economic development of the nation.