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This document provides information for caregivers on building literacy skills with children at home. It explains that literacy is an important lifelong skill and practicing at home can help children succeed in school. Developing literacy outside of school allows children to learn in a new environment and can increase engagement. The document offers specific activities caregivers can do at home, including reading with children, writing stories and letters together, playing word games, and visiting the library. The goal is to make learning fun and show children that caregivers value education.

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This document provides information for caregivers on building literacy skills with children at home. It explains that literacy is an important lifelong skill and practicing at home can help children succeed in school. Developing literacy outside of school allows children to learn in a new environment and can increase engagement. The document offers specific activities caregivers can do at home, including reading with children, writing stories and letters together, playing word games, and visiting the library. The goal is to make learning fun and show children that caregivers value education.

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With Your Child At Home to Build Literacy Skills


Literacy is Important:
Literacy is EVERYWHERE! From the time we are born we begin to use language. As we mature, the ability to communicate through the use of written and spoken language is essential to being able to function in society. Building literacy skills is a very important lifelong process that is focused on heavily in the first few years of school. Children need a lot of practice and resources to develop these skills. Having the opportunity to practice these skills at home with the support of the childs caregiver will help your child be successful in school!

It Helps Children Do Better in School:


Working at home with your child can help his/her better succeed in school. Research shows that giving children opportunities to learn in the home with parents can provide the fundamental support that they need to develop language and literacy. Giving children the opportunity to practice literacy outside of school provides a new perspective and a different environment in which to practice skill building. Children can develop a new outlook on the importance of these skills and ideas as well. If children are only practicing skills in school, they may not be very engaged and interested in developing them further.

It Creates a Good Attitude Towards Learning:

If caregivers are involved in their childs schooling and seem interested in what they are doing in school, their child will have a better attitude towards school and be more motivation to work hard. Children will usually mimic or believe whatever their parents do. It is important to remember that parents (YOU!) are childrens first teachers, so your influence and support is important. Children need this extra support and help from their parents in order to do well in school.

What You Can Do At Home:


Reading
READ at home with your child as much as possible!!! Read before going to bed, during dinner, on the weekends, ANY TIME! You can never read too much. Have your children read to YOU! Practice builds better readers. Go to the public library. Its FREE and is a good place for your child to hang out and relax. Many libraries even provide computers that offer literacy games for children and toys for young siblings to play with. Many also offer story time. Have print available in every GENRE. (fiction, non-fiction, magazines, comic books, newspapers etc) This will build an appreciation of text and build interest.

Writing
CREATE books at home with your child! This will give them the chance to use their imagination to read, write and create illustrations. Encourage your child to keep a journal about what is going on in their life. Model this by having your own! Let your child help you write out to-do lists, grocery lists, letters, cards, etc. Write your child notes to model the importance of writing. Do creative writing and thinking activities with your child!

Other Ideas
Listen to your child as they talk about whats going on in school and what they are learning. This will help them develop oral speaking skills. Show interest in the work that your child brings home from school.

Other Literacy Skills


When you see a rhyming pattern somewhere, point it out to your child! This is a very important skill as they get older. Use a wide variety of vocabulary to help your child develop theirs. Sing songs and nursery rhymes to establish rhyming and patterns. This will also help with MATH! Help children with the homework they bring home. This will show them that you are interested in what they are learning. Go on letter hunts where you look for things around the house (or other places) that begin with a certain letter. This is fun to play in the car as well! Create a home dictionary by putting one letter on every page. Have your child cut out pictures or write things down that start with that letter. -Try this with word families and rhyming as they continue to build new skills. Have your child name everything that is in a room at your home and create labels for important items.

Useful Websites
www.preschoolrainbow.org/presc hoolers.htm mixinginmath.terc.edu/materials/ athomewithmath.cfm www.readingactivities.com/for_parents www.reading.org/informationfor/ parents.aspx www.pbs.org/parents/

- Hernandez, G. (n.d.). Things parents can do to help their children at home. Retrieved from http://kindergayle.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/things-parents-can-do-to-help-their-children-at-home.pdf - Literacy activities in the home. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cal.org/caela/tools/program_development/elltoolkit/Part323LiteracyActivitiesintheHome.pdf - Tips for parents. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.pageahead.org/childrens-literacy_tips-for-parents.php - U.S. Department of Education. (2005). Helping your child succeed in school. Washington, D.C.: Education Publications Center. Retrieved from http://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/succeed/succeed.pdf - What you can do at home. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.kindercare.com/for-parents/literacy/what-you-can-do-at-home/ - Wherry, J. (n.d.). 44 proven ideas parents can use to help their children do better in school. Retrieved from http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/articles/44-proven-ideas-parents-can-use-to-help-their-children-do-better-inschool.htm

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