At Mountain View Preschool we are proud of our heritage as facilitators and teachers of confident readers. Our literacy program, developed by Mountain View Preschool founder Muriel Endersby, combines two approaches to literacy development.

The first approach, Whole Language Learning, recognizes words as whole pieces of language. In the same way children learn to speak by listening to others speak; they often develop much of their literary base through exposure to written words. 

Phonics is a complementary approach to whole language learning, teaching children to associate letters with their phonetic values. At Mountain View, we use the Fun Family Phonics literacy program, which uses engaging stories to associate letter sounds and shapes with fun memory hooks.