Response To The Parent Proposal: How Rhyming Games Help Children

I will respond to the parent that I will help his or her children learn to read through out many activities. Some of these activities are chants, rhyming games, story time or picture reading stories and conversations with adults (Strickland and Riley-Ayers, 2006). Chants help children to form and recognize rhymes and identify sounds of words. Rhyming games help children to identify group words by a common sound or similar spellings. Through story time or picture reading stories children develop imagination because through pictures they create their own story with their own vocabulary. Conversation with adults is an activity that children perform mostly at home. Children are curious by nature and they ask many questions about everything and

We as early childhood educators have to have a wide knowledge about the importance of oral language, alphabetic code and print knowledge and use concepts in early literacy (Strickland and Riley-Ayers, 2006). Alphabetic code refers to the knowledge of the alphabet letters and phonological awareness. In order to succeed children should be exposed to the alphabet at school and at home. At school, your child will be exposed to the alphabet through books, posters or blocks and at home you child must be exposed with magnets on the refrigerator, in cereal boxes or in soup, and reading at bedtime (Strickland and Riley-Ayers, 2006). At the same time, your child will learn from parents, teachers and older siblings with the daily interaction. In my class, your child will read in a daily basis and your child also has to read at home in order to create the habit of reading. Print knowledge and use refers to the knowledge your child acquires while

One of the ways I can support young children’s early literacy development is by giving every single child easily access to learning material like print and books. Research has demonstrated that children who are exposed to a wide variety of print and books become better readers and writers than those who have not exposure at all. A learning environment is needed at home and at school, so federal government should provide a lot of reading material. Another way in which early childhood programs can foster the child’s literacy skills is to expose the child at early age to bookstores and libraries in order to foster their interest in literature. At the same time offer preschool special education for those students who need it. The third way I can support young children’s early literacy is by providing support and encouragement for the children and their parents of low-income families. I as an early childhood professional have to expand the child’s literacy by providing several learning opportunities. I have to create many activities in order to engage children and their parents into a learning environment. I can create many activities such as reading storybooks aloud for the child, engaging parents and children in activities that they do