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Building Family Literacy Together: Importance and Support Tips

Family literacy involves talking, reading, storytelling, and more to enhance children's early literacy skills, supporting their social and emotional development and academic success. Learn how families can engage in activities to boost literacy and become children's first teachers.

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Building Family Literacy Together: Importance and Support Tips

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  1. Family Literacy What it is Why it is important How families can support it

  2. WHAT IS FAMILY LITERACY? • Talking, telling stories, reading, drawing, singing and writing together • Children and their parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, friends

  3. Why is early literacy important to develop? • Expanded vocabulary and writing skills • Healthy social and emotional development • Longer attention spans, promoting better retention of information in school • Imaginative and critical thinking skills • Stronger memory and higher levels of concentration

  4. What are some ways families can support children’s early literacy? • TALK with your child– talk to them about their day, their games, their chores, their friends. • READ with your child • Signs and letters to your child – at home, in the community. • TELL each other stories. Use children’s books or have the child tell their own. Help draw pictures for the child’s stories. • SING songs together. Make actions with the rhythms like clapping, skipping and jumping. • DRAW letters and signs together – on the ground or wherever there is free space.

  5. REMEMBER • PARENTS AND FAMILIES are children’s first teachers • ORAL/SPOKEN LANGUAGE is the foundation of WRITTEN LANGUAGE/LITERACY • All children can learn a lot about language, reading and writing before they go to school. • Children learn about literacy at home and in their communities. • They learn by observing and participating in everyday activities that involve texts.

  6. What are the Basics of Early Literacy? (important for family literacy leaders to know) • Print awareness • Print motivation • Vocabulary • Phonological awareness • Letter knowledge • Story skills

  7. Further Resources • Im, J., Osborn, C., Sánchez, S. and Thorp, E. (in press). Cradling Literacy: Building Teachers’ Skills to Nurture Early Language and Literacy Birth to Five.  Washington, DC: ZERO TO THREE.

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