There are 8 essential teaching strategies for literacy in an early childhood development. These strategies provide children with support, materials, settings, and experiences that are appropriate for their development. These specific strategies are listed below.
1. Storybook Reading (read alouds)
reading aloud to children can get them comfortable with literacy. Having story time daily will acquire language skills, will form word-sound awareness, stimulate cognitive skills, and will build motivation, curiosity, and memory in children.
2. Phonological Awareness Activities
These types of activities build child's language skills. Through phonemic awareness, children will learn to associate sounds with symbols and create links to decoding skills for reading as well as word recognition.
3. Shared Book Experience
This type of activity promotes whole-class readings followed by discussion and exploration of the book. Connecting the class around one book can be very benficial due to the use of collaborative learning. This can support a child's reading and comprehension by providing a safe environment for the children to practice reading techniques.
4. ABC Activities
Activities centered around the alphabet are a great way for children to learn and practice alphabet recognition. This can be done in many ways; ABC mat, letter search and find, alphabet discovery bottle, letter "I Spy", and many others. These different games make letter-learning fun for children while also teaching them in unique yet effective ways.
5. Rich Teacher Talk
Engaging children in conversation in large groups, small groups, and one-on-one. This can be accomplished by using rich language, listen and respond to what children say, and repeating their sentences back to them in a more developed way.
6. Support for Emergent Reading
This gives opportunities to encourage children to read books, environmental print, and other print. These resources should be provided in the class library and even in other areas such as the dramatic play area for the children to immerse themselves in this type of reading.
7. Support for Emergent Writing
Encourage children to write in whatever form is developmentally appropriate for them as an individual. This includes scribbling, single letters, letter strings, and words. You can support this by having the children first scribble a picture and then the teacher should write down what the meaning of the picture is to the child. Then once they start writing letters the teachers can support this by talking to the child about what the meaning is of his/her writing. this progresses until the child can write words and sentences on his/her own.
8. Integrated, Context-focused Activities
This is focused on each child's interests. The teacher should provide materials and activities that support the children's specific hobbies to encourage enjoyment in learning.
The link below describes more in-depth these literacy strategies and how they can be incorporated into
the classroom.
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