10 Activities to Encourage Your Child's Literacy at Home

Your child is no longer a baby and is about to begin literacy. Time passed fast and your little one, when you least expect it, will go around writing and reading everything he sees ahead! To help with this important new moment for parents and children, check out some activities you can do with children at home, in a playful yet simple way!

According to Ana Elisabeth Santos de Oliveira Lima, principal of The Key to Size school, literacy activities must begin even before literacy. Parents should be aware of and promote situations that increase and facilitate literacy. Looking at magazines and cutting out everything you identify, organizing in groups what you read, organizing toys in boxes, painting using primary colors within drawings and separating objects by color help in this process ?, advises Ana Elisabeth

1. Activity with figures and clothespins

Using the playful is fundamental. In this walkthrough, you will need stick or liquid glue, clothespin, permanent marker pen, colored pencil or crayon, plus a magazine with a harder cover. And also various printed figures, preferably with two syllables! It is a simple activity that encourages, in addition to literacy, psychomotor skills.

2. Can of Letters

In this tutorial, the psychopedagogue Taise Agostini teaches a very cool literacy activity: the can of letters. According to the expert, literacy begins well before learning to read and write. This activity works the concentration, the attention, the recognition of the letters and the sound. You will need a plastic can with an opening and all the letters of the alphabet to put in it. Thus, the child associates the letter he draws with a word.

3. Syllable plates

In this activity, you will need both colored and transparent disposable plates and an overhead projector pen. It is a very interesting and fast way to learn. It's very easy to do!

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4. Vowel Games

The Vowel Game is also a very playful activity and part of a craft line. You will need those paper flower pots, which are sold at party houses, and then stick the letters on the flowers and in the box itself. Then make prints. And then the game is ready to start. To learn more, watch the video!

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Here are several tips on how to stimulate the child's cognitive side: Have the book "With what letter begins", another activity of linking the pictures with the letters, ie very simple actions to help the literacy of your little one!

6. How to teach the letters of the alphabet

This activity should be practiced by children from six years of age. With an all-letter pad, you'll be able to work with letter recognition, their sound, and fine motor coordination when they button and unbutton the letter, for example. Different, right? See how it works in practice to teach the alphabet in sequence!

7. Forming words

Forming words at home is also possible! With this activity developed by the fishhopper Taise Agostini, you will need some stationery items: cardboard, scissors, that cardboard part of the toilet paper roll, glue, stylus and black marker pen. See how to do it!

8. Forming words with pet bottle

Already in this walkthrough, will you need pet bottles, a cardboard tray? those used at parties? and engravings, or drawings of animals and objects, glued to a cardboard. It is a very simple activity that can be done with children who are already starting literacy. Take a look!

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9. Letters and syllables with image data

And there's one more cool tip: it's the image dice. From it, the child can learn by associating the image of the dice with the word. It is also very simple to make and, in breaking, still works the playful and creative side of the child.

10. Unlocks

In this activity, Solange Moll teaches children who already know how to write to extend vocabulary. It's an interesting joke for a group of at least three kids. How about trying it out?

With so many tips, joining your child's literacy moment will be more fun than ever. How about choosing the activity that best fits your child's literacy and experimenting?

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