Friday, September 8, 2017

Early Literacy Tip

Early Literacy  
What children know about reading and writing before they learn to read and write.

It is important to develop early literacy skills in young children so that they are adequately prepared to learn how to read and write.  Strong reading skills form the basis for learning in all subjects and lead to better performance in school.


Early Literacy Tip

TALK

Children are constantly taking in the world around them, and that includes listening to, and learning language.  The more that you talk with your child, the more easily they will learn to read.  
Encourage your child to talk by asking them questions and talking to them about the things they enjoy and the things they are doing.  Use new and interesting words and before long they will be being to use them too.



Try:
Telling stories to your child and encouraging them to tell you stories.  You can talk about the people and places around you, something that happened during the day, or a story from a book.
When speaking with infants, be sure to look at them so that they can begin to match shapes to sounds.
Playing a listening game.  Listen to the sounds of the world around you with your child.  Have them tell you what they hear and try to imitate the sounds.
Speak more deliberately and enunciate so children can hear all of the sounds that make up a word.



These activities help to develop your child's language skills, and increases their vocabulary.  It also helps promote phonological awareness (the awareness of individual sounds that make up words), and narrative skills.  Discussing the printed words around you also helps children learn that print has meaning (print awareness) and helps them to learn their letters.







Source: Multnomah County Library



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