Education is the most powerful weapon with which you can change the world. To be educated, one starts by learning how to read and write, and typically, these skills are known as literacy skills.
Literacy skills are important for your children, not just from an academic perspective, but for the holistic development of your children. It helps shape different aspects of your child’s personality and brings in countless advantages in the long run.
Before we get onto the topic of how we can develop literacy skills in our children, it is important that we understand its advantages.
Some of the advantages that literacy skills bring about for our children are:
- Helps children improve their imagination
- Helps them step up their communication skills
- Encourages them to better express themselves
- Lets them widen their reasoning skills
- Improves their overall thought process.
- Helps develop empathy for others. The creative aspect of literacy training often involves thinking from different perspectives and putting yourself in others’ shoes. It will naturally bring about a growth of empathy for people around them.
- Improves problem-solving and pattern analysis skills
- Helps boost confidence
- Acts as an outlet for their pent-up emotions and thoughts.
- Could turn out to be what they make a career out of.
From all the above-mentioned pointers, it is clearly evident that literacy skills can help your children in countless ways. So, are you wondering how you can inculcate literacy skills in your children? Let us look at some activities that can help you with that.
Improve Reading skills
Is your child keen on reading? If yes, then great! If not, developing reading skills in your children is the first step you need to take if you want him/her to develop literacy skills. Start from a young age itself. Read to them if they are not proficient in reading by themselves. Once they get interested in listening to you read, slowly encourage them to try it out on their own. Encourage them to read at least a level above their reading ability at times. It can improve their vocabulary, reading ability, and comprehension.
Story Prompts
You can give out story prompts or just make up half of a story and hand it over to your children. It should be a narrative they have never heard before. Ask them to imagine and write the rest of the story and put no limits first. Let them be free and apply whatever methods necessary to complete the story. But once they get used to it, slowly you can make it more challenging. You can try adding conditions on how they have to progress the story- for example: how many characters should be there, or even asking them to not follow usually followed paths a story might progress. Such challenges can help improve their thinking, imagination, and adaptive skills.
Word list to practice
Make it a weekly activity for your children to learn a new list of ten words – practice learning their meaning, pronunciation, and usage. It can help improve their vocabulary and confidence when using them in communication – be it verbal or written.
Name game
Print down pictures of different objects and ask your children to identify their names. It is more suitable for young children and can help them in learning the names of different things and also improve their spelling skills.
Dialogue writing
This is another interesting activity you can try out. If you look online, you can find comic columns and strips with dialogue bubbles blanked out. You can print them out and ask your children to guess and write down in the bubbles what the characters might be talking about. It can help them see from the perspective of different people and also improve their conversational skills.
Word Games
There are many word games that you can try out. One suggestion we have for you is to give your children a letter and ask them to write a word starting from it. Next, write a word starting with the last letter of the current word they wrote.
Writing a journal
A journal is not just a writing activity, it can also be an emotional outlet and a daily tracker for your children. They can see how they have progressed over time and make suitable changes to their routine if necessary. Respect your children’s privacy and do not use their journals as a way to spy on their daily activities.
Rhyming words
Write out a list of rhyming words. Try to write as much as possible. Then you can ask them to make sentences using them. It can be a fun-filled activity. Children can come up with the most innovative and fun ideas when you encourage them. Try it out and your children might surprise you.
Write letters
Ask your children to write letters – to their friends, relatives, or better yet, to their future selves. Ask them to write about their goals and hopes for the future and what they would like to remind their future selves.
We hope you and your children find the pointers mentioned above beneficial. All the best! 🙂
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