This blog was an assignment from college, which is why there aren't any current posts. I like to refer to is when teaching to use the ideas from the book extension posts.
We want to use this space to share effective and realistic ways for parents to foster their child’s literacy development. This process should be fun, interesting and engaging for both parent and child!
Tips for encouraging emergent literacy in young children
- Visit the library regularly
- Make book choices based on their individual interests
- Read books that tell about their culture, age, and individual abilities
- Make predictions about the book’s contents
- Comment on the story and illustrations
- Extend their enjoyment and understanding of stories through art, music, drama, and writing activities.
Emergent Literacy Definitions
- Book Handling: Book handling is any exposure and experiences with handling (touching, turning the pages, pointing to etc.) books. This will differ for different ages and is important to be aware of because ANY aged child can participate in literacy development though book handling; as adults you should be aware of this concept and encourage it based on their age.
- Big Books: Big Books are over-sized picture books with enlarged pictures and print. They can be easily seen by children in a small group. However, parents can use these books with children because the pictures are very big and they are often fun to read.
- Stretch to Sketch/Reading Response: This is an activity that follows up on a book that was read; these types of activities intend to reinforce the topics in the book. Such aspects include role play of situations that occurred in the book, making a book that responds or connects ideas from the book read, doing an art activity that connects the art to the story, or playing a game that relates to the story after reading. Even simple intentional conversations after reading the story are aspects of reading response.
- Predictable books: Predictable Books contain repetitive phrases or verses, cumulative patterns, a familiar story line, or language with rhythm and rhyme. These books help children: gain a sense of control and confidence in beginning reading, learn about letters, words, sentences, and punctuation marks, as well as directionality (that words are read left to right and top to bottom)
- Picture Books: Picture books are publications in which the pictures either stand alone or dominate the text, or words and pictures have equal importance.
- Books on tape/CD: Audio books can be purchased at book stores or checked out at the local library. Parents can play these with the child while they are driving in the car or playing at home.
- Children's magazine: Many children's magazine are available for purchase. Parents can also bring their children to the local library to look at them.
- Finger Play: Fingerplays are rhymes for very young children that use hand movements coordinated with words to engage and sustain children's interest when reading. Often times, fingerplays can go along with books to reinforce the concepts, lessons, or other curricular areas.
Example of book handling
Example of homemade fingerplay
Fingerplay made from gloves, felt, and buttons
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