Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
25 Tips to Encourage Literacy In Young Children:
- Babble back to your infants
- Encourage conversation
- Teach site words – McDonalds, Lucky Charms, Barney
- Speak another language
- Encourage drawing and inventive spelling
- Script what they say about the drawings – write their story and make it into a book
- Fall in love with language, rhymes, songs and role model reading
- Label your child’s environment
- Make shopping lists with your child
- Cook and read recipes together
- Look for letters on the Menu when you go out to eat
- Cut pictures out of magazines that begin with a letter you are studying.
- Make an alphabet book
- Read a book and then ask children a few questions to test their comprehension
- Glue letters from an alphabet cereal on a piece of paper.
- Put alphabet cereal on a plate and help child make their name out of the cereal.
- Keep magnetic letters on the refrigerator
- Make up silly songs starting with the letter you are studying.
- Talk to your child
- Sing with your child
- Read to your child everyday
- Limit television watching and watch appropriate shows
- Visit libraries and bookstores
- Select a quality child care
- Read to children and ask them to predict what will happen next.
