Family Literacy
You have probably heard of the term “family literacy”, but what does it really mean as it relates to your child’s development as a reader and writer? In addition to the blog below that addresses "family literacy", we encourage you to listen to our podcast that relates to this subject.
What happens in your home is so important to your child’s development as a member of the literacy community. The environment in which your children are raised impacts them in so many ways, especially as they are learning to read and write. Do you have books available on your bookshelves? Do your children see you reading? Do you take your children to the library? Do you give your children books as gifts? Do you read aloud to your children everyday? Do you make writing materials available to your children? Reading is Fundamental gives some good guidelines for creating a reading environment at home. If you really want to give your home an evaluation, download this checklist from Get Ready to Read and see how literacy-friendly your home is. Use the results from the checklist to make simple changes in your home that will make big differences in the literacy development of your children. For a really fun activity, click on Scholastic’s virtual tour to see all the ways you can include literacy activities in your home.
Some things you can start to do right away are to build a family library, encourage your child to set up a personal library, subscribe to a children’s magazine, listen to audiobooks in the car, and choose just the right books for reading aloud for children of all ages.
You are your child’s first teacher. The best activity you can engage in to foster literacy development is to read aloud to your children. They learn that reading is an enjoyable activity, and they associate the reading with their relationship with you. They learn how stories work. They gain valuable background knowledge that will help them with comprehension. They build a repertoire of known stories. They expand their vocabulary knowledge. United Through Reading offers some good resources on reading aloud to your children. Watch this informational video from Get Ready to Read for some ideas for reading, listening, and writing ideas that you can easily do with your children. Colorin Colorado offers some excellent ideas for reading with your children too. ProfessorGarfield.org can be an important part of your family literacy activities. You can read along and enjoy the Garfield comic strips with your children in the Reading Ring where your child can practice comprehension and sequencing. You can help your child defeat another player in the G-Cubed trivia game where background knowledge can be built.
Early reading skills of phonemic awareness and phonics can be practiced in interactive game formats in Orson’s Farm and the Fishing with Phonics games. If you need some print materials, visit the Easy Readers section of the site and print out wonderfully engaging stories for your children to read over and over again. You can even have them color the illustrations. Don’t forget to print out and play the bingo games and play memory with the word cards to build sight vocabulary. For writing practice spend some time creating a comic strip with your child in the Comics Lab. Visit the Word Wall section of the site for alphabet letters and simple ABC books. Finally, for Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and Math activities, there are enough activities to last all day in the Knowledge Box section of the site. Please make literacy an important part of your everyday activities. Enjoy the time you spend reading, talking, and writing with your children, and let Professor Garfield help you in fostering the literacy development of your children in fun and exciting ways!
What happens in your home is so important to your child’s development as a member of the literacy community. The environment in which your children are raised impacts them in so many ways, especially as they are learning to read and write. Do you have books available on your bookshelves? Do your children see you reading? Do you take your children to the library? Do you give your children books as gifts? Do you read aloud to your children everyday? Do you make writing materials available to your children? Reading is Fundamental gives some good guidelines for creating a reading environment at home. If you really want to give your home an evaluation, download this checklist from Get Ready to Read and see how literacy-friendly your home is. Use the results from the checklist to make simple changes in your home that will make big differences in the literacy development of your children. For a really fun activity, click on Scholastic’s virtual tour to see all the ways you can include literacy activities in your home.
Some things you can start to do right away are to build a family library, encourage your child to set up a personal library, subscribe to a children’s magazine, listen to audiobooks in the car, and choose just the right books for reading aloud for children of all ages.
You are your child’s first teacher. The best activity you can engage in to foster literacy development is to read aloud to your children. They learn that reading is an enjoyable activity, and they associate the reading with their relationship with you. They learn how stories work. They gain valuable background knowledge that will help them with comprehension. They build a repertoire of known stories. They expand their vocabulary knowledge. United Through Reading offers some good resources on reading aloud to your children. Watch this informational video from Get Ready to Read for some ideas for reading, listening, and writing ideas that you can easily do with your children. Colorin Colorado offers some excellent ideas for reading with your children too. ProfessorGarfield.org can be an important part of your family literacy activities. You can read along and enjoy the Garfield comic strips with your children in the Reading Ring where your child can practice comprehension and sequencing. You can help your child defeat another player in the G-Cubed trivia game where background knowledge can be built.
Early reading skills of phonemic awareness and phonics can be practiced in interactive game formats in Orson’s Farm and the Fishing with Phonics games. If you need some print materials, visit the Easy Readers section of the site and print out wonderfully engaging stories for your children to read over and over again. You can even have them color the illustrations. Don’t forget to print out and play the bingo games and play memory with the word cards to build sight vocabulary. For writing practice spend some time creating a comic strip with your child in the Comics Lab. Visit the Word Wall section of the site for alphabet letters and simple ABC books. Finally, for Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and Math activities, there are enough activities to last all day in the Knowledge Box section of the site. Please make literacy an important part of your everyday activities. Enjoy the time you spend reading, talking, and writing with your children, and let Professor Garfield help you in fostering the literacy development of your children in fun and exciting ways!
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