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Building your child’s literacy skills: Kindergarten to Year 2. Ideas for building literacy skills. Your support at home can: build confidence and develop the motivation to learn improve your child’s reading and thinking strategies
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Building your child’s literacy skills:Kindergarten to Year 2
Ideas for building literacy skills Your support at home can: • build confidence and develop the motivation to learn • improve your child’s reading and thinking strategies • help your child to learn new information and make meaning out of what they are taught in class • provide multiple perspectives to help your child rethink events and issues
Ideas for building literacy skills • deepen your child’s knowledge and vocabulary. Your support at home can: • build confidence and develop the motivation to learn • improve your child’s reading and thinking strategies • help your child to learn new information and make meaning out of what they are taught in class • provide multiple perspectives to help your child rethink events and issues
What to read Explore a wide range of materials together with your child: • picture books or story books • biographies • websites • newspaper and magazine articles • informational picture books.
Writing Writing can be used as a tool to enhance a reader’s learning about texts. [Quotation from Winch, G. et al. (2008) Literacy, 3rd edition, Oxford Press, p.198]
Ideas for building literacy skills http://www.nlnw.nsw.edu.au/kids.htm
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