Preschoolers – Literacy
Supporting emergent literacy skills of a Preschooler
Chapter 6.12
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Read with your child often, as it develops a solid foundation for literacy. It is best to begin reading right from infancy, but it is never too late.
Let’s Reflect
Just reading books to young children isn’t enough…
It’s how the book is read or conversations maintained that makes a difference.
Supporting emergent literacy skills with interactive book reading.
Step 1: Observe, Wait, Listen
Observe your child’s interest, it might be in showing you a tiny ‘paw-print’, or the funny ‘zee-zaw, zee-zaw’ sound or simply might wish to open the ‘flap’ in the book
Wait for your child to take turns in the interaction and show/tell you what s/he is interested in.
Listen: If your child asks a question, give him/her the chance to come up with answers before you step in.
Eg: If your child says, ‘What’s in that box there?’, you could say, ‘Why don’t you help me open it and find out!”
This is important, because once you have heard him/her out, you can build on it to add vocabulary, enhance comprehension, or even to talk about letters, sounds or print awareness.
Step 2: Follow your child’s lead
Respond to your child’s displayed interest by making a comment or asking a question. Eg:What will happen to froggy cutting the branch ‘zee-zaw, zee-zaw’?
This will get his mind thinking and help him/her take interest in the story as well look for words (developing vocabulary) to describe his thoughts.
Step 3: Keep the conversation going:
Wait again to see/hear a response from your child. He shows the froggy falling of the branch he was chopping. Again Repeat Step 2,, thereby helping your child connect what he knows with what he is learning.
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