What is Early Literacy? Early Literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. Research shows that children get ready to read years before they start school. There are six early literacy skills that parents can incorporate into their children's daily life. These six skills are: Vocabulary, Print Motivation, Print Awareness, Narrative Skills, Phonological Awareness, and Letter Knowledge. More detailed information about these six skills is available at http://multcolib.org/birthtosix/elitskills.html/
You can help your baby, toddler and preschooler learn important skills now so they can become good readers. There are many simple and fun ways to do this. We invite you to bring your child to Library storytimes, which utilize research-based techniques to build early literacy skills. This newsletter will help you extend storytime benefits by including book-related fingerplays, crafts, and other activities.
This issue features the literacy skill known as narrative skills. Narrative skills include the ability to describe things, tell events in sequence and retell stories. The ability to talk about what happens in a story helps a child understand the meaning of what was read.
Choose books that have repeated phrases, tell a cumulative tale or have a cause and effect that your child may be able to predict. wordless books that allow the child to narrate the story. Here are some titles that promote narrative skills. |
