Five Pre-Literacy Skills You can Help Your Child With At Home
Pre-literacy skills are what a child knows about reading and writing before they learn to read and write. These skills give your child a foundation for future reading success!
I love the book Harriet Gets Carried Away by Jessie Sima for the fun story and its fantastic representation of diverse LGBTQ+ families! When Harriet goes shopping with her dads for her birthday party, she goes on an amazing adventure that involves penguins, hot air balloons and a friendly orca. Luckily, when her adventure is over, she finds her dads right where she left them, and they arrive safely back to their house just in time for her birthday party.
Here are 5 pre-literacy skills you can work on using picture books like Harriet Gets Carried Away:
Print awareness. Even if your child can’t read yet, help them identify words on the page to understand that the words tell a story.
Vocabulary. Use the pictures and words in the story to help your child understand and express new vocabulary words so that when reading in the future, they will already be familiar with the words!
Story elements. Help your child identify story elements such as the characters, setting, problem and solution. Being able to understand which parts make up a story helps with reading comprehension and verbal expression.
Sequencing. Talk about what happened first, next, and last in the book to help kids learn how narratives are sequenced. Understanding story sequence helps with reading skills later.
Predicting. Predicting is an important literacy skill. Before revealing the next page, ask your child what they think will happen next.
Happy Reading!
Here’s a link to the book.
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