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IMPORTANCE OF EARLY LITERACYLaura Lee Wilson
Head of Children’s Services
Holmes County District Public Library
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“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. This is especially true during the preschool years.”
~Becoming a Nation of Readers
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SIX SKILLS TO LEARNING TO READ
1.Print Motivation
2.Phonological Awareness
3.Narrative Skills
4.Letter Knowledge
5.Print Awareness
6.Vocabulary
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Children who enjoy books will want to learn to read
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Notice the lack of red and green in the brain scan of the neglected child.
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PRINT MOTIVATION
A child’s interest and enjoyment in books
Birth – 2 years: begin reading books, even to babies
2 – 3 years: continue reading to your child; let your child see you reading
4 – 5 years: make book sharing a special time; attend library programs
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Any book that a child wants to read is promoting “print motivation”
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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
A child’s ability to hear and play with smaller sounds of words
Birth – 2 years: sing songs, say nursery rhymes
2 – 3 years: play word games with rhyming sounds
4 – 5 years: what word would you have if you took “hot” out of “hotdog”
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“Most children who have difficulty reading have trouble with phonological awareness.”
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Sheep on a Ship, has rhyming words that will encourage word playand “phonological awareness”
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NARRATIVE SKILLS
A child’s ability to describe things and events, to tell stories
Birth – 2 years: talk to your baby
2 – 3 years: ask open ended questions. “What do you think is happening in this picture?”
4 – 5 years: ask child to tell you what happened in a book in the beginning, middle and end
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Learning words begins at birth and grows throughout a child’s life. Most children start school knowing between 3,000 and 5,000 words
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Jump, Frog, Jump! allows children to predict what is going to happennext which promotes “narrative skills”
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LETTER KNOWLEDGE
A child’s ability to name letters, knowing their sounds, and recognizing them everywhere
Birth – 2 years: Help your baby see and feel different shapes (The ball is round)
2 – 3 years: talk about shapes - what is the same and what is different
4 – 5 years: write your child’s name, point out letters
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By the time children are 2 years old, they understand 300 -500 words. You help your child learn new words by talking and reading together.
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Any alphabet book will assist in learning “letter knowledge”
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VOCABULARY
A child’s ability to know the names of things
Birth – 2 years: talk to your baby, encourage babbling
2 – 3 years: when your child talks add more details, read books
4 – 5 years: allow your child to express themselves through language, read books and have child retell the story
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Research shows that children who have larger vocabularies are better readers. Knowing many words helps children recognize written words by talking and reading together.
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“Vocabulary is learned from books more than from normal conversation with adults or children or from television exposure.”
~Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children
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Children will learn new “vocabulary” by listening to books read to them
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PRINT AWARENESS
A child’s ability to notice print, knowing how to handle a book, and follow the words on a page
Birth – 2 years: allow your child to hold board books and cloth books
2 – 3 years: Point to words as you say them; hold the book upside down
4 – 5 years: Let your child choose a book, turn the pages, repeat words they are familiar with
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Talking with children develops comprehension skills that will help them understand what they read.
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Any children’s book that interests a child is good to use forreinforcing “print awareness”
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Notice how different parts of the brain are used for different readingfunctions. Reading truly is a whole-brain activity.
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Brain synapses are formed with new and repeated activities towardthe beginning of life. Notice during the teen years, that those synapsesthat are not used through repetition begin to diminish.
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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP YOUR CHILD?
R E A D!Keep Books with ToysSpeak ClearlyAsk your toddler questionsVisit the Library