Your child needs to take small literacy steps and climb steep literacy hills before they scale literacy mountains. They need to train daily, building their literacy muscles little by little. You are their trainer and guide; keeping pace and cheering them on.
Learning Letters
We teach the alphabet because letters build words, which build sentences, which build stories, which build the world we live in. We learn to speak and read and write in order to communicate our ideas and unique perspectives.
Learning Numbers
Young learners often confuse numerals with letters. Teaching numeric concepts before teaching the numeric symbol helps. Teaching your child to count and identify numbers builds their number sense and gives them the background they’ll need to move on to more complex math skills like addition and subtraction.
Learning to Match
This skill focuses on your child’s ability to find items that are the same. At first they may match two things that are red. As they become more skilled, they’ll match two apples that are red. And then two different fruits that are both red.
Learning to Sort
Your child has been learning to identify items by color, shape, and size. Then they learned how to match objects that were similar. Now it’s time to put that knowledge to the test. Children can now practice their abilities by sorting objects in different ways using their attributes.
Learning Tools
Teaching your child to use tools properly will ensure that they’re safe and comfortable when they are doing activities that require them. Once they enter school, they will be expected to use these tools independently and on a daily basis.
