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A. Strategies For The Development of Emergent Literacy Skills and Teaching Resources

This document discusses strategies for developing emergent literacy skills in children ages 1-8. Literacy development is important for school success, communication, and life skills. It involves developing abilities like speaking, listening, drawing, and eventually reading and writing. The document emphasizes the importance of communicating with children through talking, singing, reading together, and playing rhyming games. These activities help children learn sounds and language in a fun way and build a foundation for literacy.

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A. Strategies For The Development of Emergent Literacy Skills and Teaching Resources

This document discusses strategies for developing emergent literacy skills in children ages 1-8. Literacy development is important for school success, communication, and life skills. It involves developing abilities like speaking, listening, drawing, and eventually reading and writing. The document emphasizes the importance of communicating with children through talking, singing, reading together, and playing rhyming games. These activities help children learn sounds and language in a fun way and build a foundation for literacy.

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Strategies for the development of emergent literacy skills and teaching


resources:
Suitable to 1-8 years

Developing letiracy

Key points

 Literacy is the foundation for reading, writing, communicating and also


socializing. learning about sounds and language. Communicating with children,
reading, and playing with rhyme SUPPORTS LITERACY development. In
everyday learning with fun activities like singing, and games for the children
development

Encouraging literacy development

Literacy development is a vital part of your child’s overall development and foundation
for doing well at school, communicating, problem-solving, over coming simple obstacles
managing money and working.

Children need to develop the building blocks for literac, the ability to speak, listen,
understand, watch and draw and doing well in reading and writing. And as children get
older, they also need to learn about the connection between letters on a page and spoken
sounds. They need plenty of experience with:

 pictures and objects


 letters and words
 sounds communicating with your child
 reading together
 playing with rhyme and other sounds with your child.

Importance of communicating in literacy development

Talking helps to develop your child’s ability to speak, listen and understand as they grow.

For example, you know your baby responds to your smiles and your words and they might
try to imitate your sounds and facial expressions. When you respond, it encourages two-
way conversation and helps your baby learn words and build language skills.Singing with
your child, teaches them about the rise and fall of sounds also a good way to make your
child involve to the music and stories of your family’s culture.
What you can do

 Copying baby sound, using baby talk, slowly speaking, voice lower and higher
intonations these helps the baby understand how language is put together.
 Sing with your child
 Having good communication with your child with series of topics relate in everyday
life. Talking about feelings, using different emotions and sharing stories
 Emphasise the different parts of words and different letters
 Listen to your child let them learn new things
 Teaching correct pronunciation

Reading: its importance in literacy development

Reading with your child often helps them develop a solid foundation for literacy and
promotes bonding and is good for your relationship with your child. shows them that
books are important for them to learn. Learning sounds of letters in spoken language
improves their thinking and problem-solving skills understand that stories through words it
also helps them develop a larger vocabulary, and learn about the wider community,
society and the world.

What you can do

 Teaching rhyme and word repeating


 Encourage your child to hold the book and turn the pages
 Teaches your child about print and shows your child that we always start on the left and
move to the right when reading English.
 Point out pictures
 Make the sounds of animals having fun.
 Asking your child open-ended questions

Rhyme: its importance in literacy development

Its help babies hear and identify different sounds in words and helps them learn the connection
between the sound of a word and how it’s written.

What you can do

 Play games that involve rhyming.


 Play games that involve the sound and rhythm of words try tongue twisters
 Read rhyming books

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