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Visual messages: Making sense with young children

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Whether we know it or not, the environment teaches children how to read. The symbols, pictures, and print in our classrooms are a foundation for later reading. Children need useful and practical information communicated through visual messages.

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  1. Sandra L. Gordon
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  2. Beth C. Anderson
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Sandra L. Gordon and Beth C. Anderson are Associate Professors in the Education Department at Moorhead State University in Minnesota.

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Gordon, S.L., Anderson, B.C. Visual messages: Making sense with young children. Early Childhood Educ J 14, 32–33 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01620803

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