When it comes to early literacy, too often, parents are overly concerned with how quickly their young child will learn to read, which often results in unnecessary pressures on the early childhood teacher. Often parents feel as though teaching their child to read should take precedence over play-based learning in the classroom.

• Discuss some of the ideas that you have observed, would like to try, or simply wonder about, that might help parents of young children better understand the developmental nature of learning to read and the role-play-based learning has as an early literacy developmental tool.