Here are some fun activities to do at home that would help your child get ready for Literacy Learning.

• Give your child the opportunity to use a variety of art materials such as play-doh/plasticine, chalk, crayons, colouring pencils, felt tip pens, and scissors. Encourage your child to hold a pencil correctly.
• If your child is ready to write, copying and and writing alongside an adult is beneficial.
• Encourage them to write their name with a capital letter only at the first letter of their name, followed by lowercase letters.

Click below for a letter formation template:

Letter Formation

• Read/say/sing Nursery Rhymes together (Humpty Dumpty, Jack & Jill, Incy Wincy Spider etc.) The rhymes are important for rhyme, sound and pattern recognition. The BBC School Radio page for Nursery Rhymes can be helpful. Click here to visit the page.

• Encourage your child to look at books. Show them the way to hold a book, to turn the pages and to follow print from left to right and top to bottom. Talk about the pictures together and ask your child lots of questions about the book to check if they understand what is happening.

• Play ‘Kim’s Game’ with your child. Put some objects on a table. Can your child name them? Ask your child to close their eyes. Take one of the objects away. Ask your child to open their eyes. Can your child say which object is missing? This game will help improve their working memory.
• Play some fun games with your children to get them talking and listening to others as well as developing their language skills. Ask:  ‘Can you…
  • • Name things that fly?
    • Name things that go in the water?
    • Name things that are sweet?
    • Name things that live in the ocean?
    • Name things that go on the road?
    • Name things that live on a farm?
    • Name types of sport?
    • Name types of fruit?
    • Name types of vegetables?