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Early literacy skills come before children read and write. There are many ways to help your child develop these skills daily, such as reading books every day, pointing out words in flyers, looking for familiar signs and writing scribbles on a thank you note.
EARLY LITERACY SKILLS INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO:
EARLY LITERACY SKILLS INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO:
Listen and tell stories with others
Learn lots of new words
Understand stories and how print works
Draw, scribble, and copy shapes and print
Understand how words can be broken into sounds
Learn about letters and how letters represent sounds
WHY IS EARLY LITERACY SO IMPORTANT?
WHY IS EARLY LITERACY SO IMPORTANT?
Children who become strong readers are more likely to live a healthy life, do well in school, and enter the workforce successfully.
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW!
READING TO YOUR CHILD WILL:
READING TO YOUR CHILD WILL:
Give you an opportunity to bond
Help your child’s brain grow the connections needed to learn speech and language skills
Help them learn the sounds and words they need to talk
Teach your child many new words
Allow them to develop a love of reading
TIPS FOR BUILDING LITERACY SKILLS:
TIPS FOR BUILDING LITERACY SKILLS:
Offer interesting books to your child
Read or tell stories together
Talk about stories you have read and how they relate to your child’s life
Offer activities that focus on reading and writing such as making shopping lists, reading signs and reading recipes
SHARED READING:
SHARED READING:
Shared reading helps the child become the teller of the story. You can do this by encouraging your child to:
Answer questions about the story
Share in the telling of the story
Make guesses about what might happen next
Act out their favourite parts, and
Relate parts of the story to their own life
NUMERACY:
NUMERACY:
Children’s math skills start to develop long before school begins. Preschool numeracy abilities are powerful predictors of later school success.
Tips to do daily!
Tips to do daily!
Sorting socks by colour or size
Counting toes
Noticing who got a bigger piece of cake
Setting the table
Resources:
Learn how you can promote early literacy skills from birth in this video from the Canadian Paediatric Society and this article from Caring For Kids
Check out this Book Reading Checklist for Parents from The Hanen Centre to see how you are supporting your child's literacy skills.
Review are these tips from The Hanen Center to help you pick out books to read with your child.
Watch this video from First Words on the power of books!
Learn about effective strategies for reading with your child, such as Dialogic Reading and The Hanen Center's Shoot for the SSTaRS: A Strategy for Teaching Vocabulary to Promote Emergent Literacy
Your Speech-Language Pathologist or Communicative Disorders Assistant may provide more individualized support.
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