Copy and Paste Parent Tips

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Lifestyle Literacy Learning
Helping your child learn to read and write doesn’t have to take a lot of extra time or money. Here are some easy ways to build literacy skills on the run
• Point out printed words when you are out and about. Point out individual letters in signs, billboards,
posters, food containers, books and magazines. (Phonics; print awareness)
• Keep in your purse or car a stack of pictures you’ve cut out of magazines or newspapers. Ask your child to tell you a story about the picture or describe all the things s/he sees in the picture. (Comprehension;vocabulary)
• Listen for rhymes in songs that you know or hear on the radio. Sing the songs with your child. (Phonological awareness)
• Help your child to make up and say silly sentences with lots of words that start with the same letter "Tom took ten toy trucks to town." (Phonological awareness)