Encouraging Literacy in Your Home

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Encouraging Literacy in Your Home

• Presented
• By Shannon Mayville

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Family members frequently ask teachers
what can I do at home to help my child learn to
read and write.

• When families provide a rich literacy environment
  at home, teaching reading and writing becomes
  easier for both the teacher and the child at
  school.
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  Morrow, Literacy Development in the Early
  Years

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The Importance of Literacy in the Home

• Family members are childrens first teachers and
  their teachers for the longest time.
• Childrens experiences affect their success in
  becoming literate.
• The success of the school literacy program
  frequently depends on the literacy environment at
  home.
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  Morrow, Literacy Development in the
  Early Years

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The four areas of literacy

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

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Ways parents can help their children succeed in
the four areas of literacy are
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Ideas for Encouraging Listening

• Play games like Simon Says or for older children
  Trivial Pursuit
• Provide books on tape recorders.
• Play telephone game.
• Songs of movement.

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Ideas for Encouraging Speaking

• Ask open ended questions.
• Have dinner conversation at least once a week.
• Ask questions after any reading or any
  discussion.
• Cooking together.

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Ideas for Encouraging Reading

• Family members can provide library corners for
  their children.
• Make books available throughout the house,
  children spend a considerable time in the kitchen
  and bathrooms.
• Offer a variety of books, children's magazines
  offer attractive print material.
• Story readings are almost always pleasurable, and
  the pleasure that is experienced builds a desire
  for and interest in reading.

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Ideas for Encouraging Writing

• Offer a variety of different paper.
• Pencils, crayons, colored pencils, a chalkboard
• and chalk, and white slates and markers
• are good home writing tools.
• Manipulative materials like magnetic, felt,
• or wooden letters are also useful.
• Home computers encourage writing and are
• appropriate for preschoolers.
• Make writing a family event whenever possible
• like thank you notes or grocery lists.
• Children will imitate family members who take
• opportunities to communicate through writing.

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Recommended Software to Promote Literacy

• Preschool Parade ---------------PreK-1
• Elmos Reading Preschool and Kindergarten
  -------------------PreK-1
• I SPY Puppet Playhouse--------PreK-2
• Sticky bear's Reading Room --PreK-3
• Arthurs Reading -------------- PreK-3

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Recommended Websites to Promote Literacy

• The Reading Zone
• LiteracyCenter.Net-The Early
• Childhood Education Network
• Sesame Workshop
• Between the Lions Get Wild about Reading
• HarperChildrens.com

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You may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of
jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you
can never be I had a Mother who read to
me. -Strickland Gillian