7 Tips for Encouraging Early Literacy: Encourage your child’s literacy skills – well before she/he learns to read!
From Scholastic.com
- Form a close bond. This one is easy! Your relationship with your child is very important to his/her ability to learn. If you are interactive, close and loving, your child will reap the rewards.
- Get in on the fun. Being a participant at playtime can bring you closer and help you learn useful Information about your child’s habits and emotions.
- Tell tales. Build narrative skills by gathering family members at meal times and having them tell the story of their day.
- Play rhyming games to build phonemic awareness. . . and just for fun.
- Bring reading and writing into everyday life. Encourage literacy in your child’s daily routines by writing thank you notes or making shopping lists together.
- Be attentive and engaged when you communicate with your child.
- Read together. Make story time a daily ritual that your child can count on and look forward to.