Essential Literacy Strategies

In early literacy there are 8 key strategies for strong early literacy skills. These key strategies will help young children to have a better literacy experience.  

1. ABC Activities

This activity center will be very involved in helping the children to gain knowledge and experiences with the alphabet. An activity that you might see in this center would be having children practice writing letters in shaving cream on a table with their finger.   

2. Emergent Reading 

This will be demonstrated in the classroom by displaying environmental print and providing the children with story books. These resources should be displayed throughout the classroom.   

3. Emergent Writing 

This will encourage the children to practice their writing skills. In an early childhood classroom there will be children who are at different stages of writing such as scribbles, letters, and words. As a teacher it is important to encourage children to write no matter what stage they are at.  

4. Integrated, Content-Focused Activities   

A teacher can display this in their classroom by bringing things that the children find interesting into the classroom. This is important because creating activities that the children find interesting will encourage them to learn 

5. Phonological Awareness  

Phonological awareness in the classroom will encourage children to explore sounds of words. Children can do this by sounding out words and being able to recognize words from books.

 

6. Rich Teacher Talk 

Using language in the classroom and encourage conversations with children and teachers can help to build classroom vocabulary. This can be done in group activities or one-on-one conversations.

7. Shared Book Experience  

 This strategy is when the whole class is involved in a story book. Teachers can promote other literacy strategies through shared book experiences by reading a story then setting up classroom activities to further the children's learning.

8. Storybook Reading 

 This is the most common literacy strategy. Reading aloud to children will allow them to become familiar with storybooks and print. Reading aloud to children will build their reading and language skills. This is a good time to introduce new things to a classroom.