Children are eager to learn. When young children gain literacy skills they begin to formulate their opinions and thoughts of the world around them. Children’s emergent literacy skills are directly related to their ability to communicate effectively.
To promote emergent literacy within your program you should have:
1) Several activities that revolve around language arts, pre-reading, phonics and phonemic awareness and story time.
2) Rhyming and letter sequencing are also a part of the pre-reading skills.
3) Reading to the children and allowing them to develop their language, cognitive process and social activities through story-time, along with reviewing letters and sounds daily.
4) The children should name words that have the sound that the class is working on.
5) The students along with the teacher’s should spell words daily and first and last names as well as their classmate’s name.
6) Teachers should allow the students to locate objects in the room with the sound that they are working on.
7) The teacher should read aloud to the children and the children will recite the story.
8) The teacher will utilize paired reading where the children read to one another with adult supervision.
Create a literature rich environment for them to gain literacy skills.