Yes, amazing reading by kindergarten students happens every day. Students are reading when they practice the act of reading. There are many ways to help beginning readers start the reading process. Way before they are actually reading words, students need to be practicing reading with books and poems.

Beginning Readers Can Read Before They Can Read Words

Beginning readers really work hard on learning to read words. There are many things that beginning readers can do before learning to read the actual words in the books that counts a reading. Taking time to read books in different ways will help develop concepts about print, an important skill needed for reading and writing.

How to read before words are known!

There are many ways, but here are a few:
1.  Look at the pictures and tell yourself a story.
2.  Look to see if you can find any letters in your name. 
3. Count the letters you find on each page.
4.  Search for capital letters. Where do you see them?
5.  Search for lower case letters. Where do you see them?
6.  Search for words you know.