My 641 Project Creating Early Literacy-based Content for Farmington Community Library’s Children’s Page

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How it could be…. Get Free Books for your child age 0-5!

Mockup of how the 6 Skills Page Could Look

The 6 early literacy skills that your child needs to master before learning how to read. Click on the links provided to work on each one. Letter Knowledge: Teach your child how to recognize letters Narrative Skills: Teach your child how to tell a story Phonological Awareness: Help your child recognize sounds in words Print Awareness: Teach your child to read from left to right and how words look Print Motivation: Help your child develop a love of reading Vocabulary: Teach your child the names of things Six-in-One! Try these activities with your child to work on ALL 6 early literacy skills. Six-in-One! Try these activities with your child to work on ALL 6 early literacy skills. Portions of activities and skill buildings take from the following: Waisman Center's Birth to 6 Events newsletter, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, readingrockets.org, multcolib.org Six early literacy skills established by National Institute for Literacy. "Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel." The National Institute of Child Heath and Human Development.” 2008 All images are in public domain or licensed under Creative Commons. For more information visit the Creative Commons site herehere Helpful Hints For every skill-building set, we give book suggestions for you to read with your child. You can find these books in our library catalog. If you need help with some of the activities, feel free to ask one of the librarians to demonstrate some or help you along! When you read a book with your child remember to "CAR“: COMMENT on the book and wait for a response ASK a question (try ones that don't have just yes or no answers) RESPOND and add a little more Return to Ages birth-6 page

Mockup of one of the skills pages

Find the sounds in words (Phonological Awareness) Find some pictures of things (cut them out from a magazine to recycle) that rhyme (like a cat/hat or bug/rug). Separate the pairs of rhyming pictures into 2 containers. Have your child pull out a picture from each container and ask them if they rhyme. If not, have them continue to pull a picture from one of the containers until they find one that matches, as a rhyme, to the picture they hold in their hand Sing the song “A Hunting We Will Go. After each verse ask your child which words rhymed with each other. Here’s an example: Lyrics: A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go Heigh-ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go We’ll catch a fox, in a box And then we’ll let him go A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go Heigh-ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go We’ll catch a bear and cut his hair And then we’ll let him go A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go Heigh-ho, the dairy-o, a hunting we will go A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go We’ll catch a pig and dance a jig And then we’ll let him go Sing the song “This Old Man” and ask your child to pick out the rhyming words. Find lyrics and video here.here Read Dr. Suess books with your child. Say part of the sentence and have your child try to guess what the end of it will be. A good book is The Ear Book. As you read it talk about how we can listen with our ears to hear how words sound alike.The Ear Book Read a nursery rhyme to your child, like Hickory Dickory Dock. Then say “I’m going to read it again and when you hear the word dock clap your hands.” Read it a third time, choosing a different word for your child to clap to and then move on to a different nursery rhyme.Hickory Dickory Dock Return to Ages birth-6 page Return to 6 Skills Main Page

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