It can sometimes be difficult to think of new and interesting ways to encourage early literacy at home. Chances are though you are probably already doing a lot of the techniques we are talking about here already. Here we will look at 14 ways in which you can encourage early literacy at home... 1/ Read Aloud - As soon as your child is born. This helps them recognise your voice and different tones. 2/ Books - Start with the basic wooden back books and progress to more complex picture books with rhyming language. 3/ Stories - Share stores at meal times. For example what everyone has done during the day. 4/ Slide Shows - Turn your children’s own words into a computer slide show or animations (via an app). They will be amazed to see their words turned into stories. 5/ Chit Chat -Talk to them about their daily experiences. This helps develop not only verbal but literacy skills. 6/ Integration - Integrate words into day to day play. For example menus in a pretend cafe or food stall. 7/ Involvement - Involve your children in day to day activities. For example making shopping lists together. Explain what you are doing and why in language they will understand. 8/ Rhyming - Play rhyming games, to help build phonemic awareness, and also to have fun! 9/ Following - Run your finger under each word. Your child may not notice this at first, but soon they will develop the concept of words and spacing between words. 10/ Expansion - Expand Your Child’s Vocabulary through story times, Discuss words with your child that they might not know. Did you know that children who join kindergarten with a strong vocabulary are typically able to learn 8 new words per day, while children who struggle with vocabulary learn only 2 words per day 11/ Inflections - Read with voice inflections. For example using a rising and falling tone when speaking. It helps children hear how reading should sound. and second, using voice inflections as you read holds their attention and gets them excited about reading. 12/ Predictions - Ask you child what they will think will happen in a book from looking at the cover. This will help the child focus on the story and how it will compare to their own expectations. 13/ Repetitions - Reading the same book over and over might sound repetitive but repetition is the key to learning. This will help the child gain familiarity with the story and then become familiar with turning pages, when the story ends, and also recognise any mistakes you make when reading. 14/ Teach Letter Sounds - Studies have shown that children learn best when they are taught the letter names and letter sounds at the same time. In one study, 58 preschool children were randomly assigned to receive instructions in letter names and sounds, letter sound only, or numbers (control group). The results of this study were shown to be consistent with past research results in that it found children receiving letter name and sound instruction were the most likely to learn the sounds of letters whose names included cues to their sounds. I hope this list was useful, please check out our blog for further articles. For further tips check out this article - www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/reading-resources/developing-reading-skills/reading-tips-parents.html Thanks JM
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