supporting your childs literacy learning

First, I want to thank Maira's family for the yummy birthday cupcakes yesterday.

I wanted to share a few ideas of ways you can support your child's literacy learning at home.

- reading and discussing storybooks frequently
- teaching letters and sounds, both spontaneously and intentionally
- teaching "sight words," both high-frequency words and words of personal significance (e.g., one's name)
- providing help based on the child's questions and requests for assistance
- making rhymes with words
- participating in reading-related activities (e.g., magnetic letters on fridge, writing a letter, baking, etc.)
- listening to the child reading
- enjoying family literacy activities "on the run" (e.g., reading signs)
- providing direct instruction (information and explanations)



Parents belong at the center of a young child's education. The single best way to improve elementary education is to strengthen parents' role in it, both by reinforcing their relationship with the school and by helping and encouraging them in their own critical job of teaching the young. Not all teachers are parents, but all parents are teachers.

:)
Miss Mynes