There are five different practices that help build early literacy skills, and today we’re going to talk about one of our favourite tools for building reading skills (and life skills!) with your babies: board books! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Board Books
Looking for another literacy activity to do at home? Can’t get out to go camping? Just in time for the long weekend, we have this fantastic camping dramatic play activity for you! Transform your living room into a campsite and let the kids play. Continue reading Literacy at Home: Camping Dramatic Play
We’ve got an incredibly simple literacy at home activity for you this week that helps to build letter recognition, and practice both reading and writing! Most children start out learning the alphabet by spelling their names. For this activity, they only need to be able to make their first initial! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Letter Tic-Tac-Toe
We’re back with another song collection for you! These ones are all about frogs and are great to use with preschoolers. Singing is one of the five practices that build early literacy skills – and singing with your child is a great way to build another early literacy practice into your day – playing! Continue reading Literacy at Home: 3 Songs for 3-5s
Are you looking to help your children build their early literacy skills at home or taking part in our summer READO challenge? We’ve got a super simple activity for you! Writing a grocery list with your child supports three of the five early literacy practices: talking, reading, and writing. If you include our bonus activity it can also incorporate playing! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Grocery List
You may have noticed that we didn’t have a Beyond Storytime post this morning. That’s because some of our regular programs are going on hiatus while we bring you a summer of phenomenal kids programming! To kick things off, along with our Summer Reading Clubs, we have two challenges to share with you this year, one for ages 6-12, and one for pre-readers ages 0-5. Continue reading Summer Challenges for Kids!
Excited about watching virtual Storytimes but wanting to get more out of them? We are delighted to bring you some extra activities you can add to your day to get more out of our Storytimes! Continue reading Beyond Storytime: June 29- July 3
Children love telling stories and this week we have a super simple storytelling activity for you that supports two of the five early literacy practices: talking and playing! It’s also one that you can use over and over and over (and over) again! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Storytelling Sack
Excited about watching virtual Storytimes but wanting to get more out of them? We are delighted to bring you some extra activities you can add to your day to get more out of our Storytimes! Each Friday we’ll be bringing you a preview of the themes for the next week and suggestions for ways to build extra learning and fun into each day. Continue reading Beyond Storytime: June 22 – 26
It’s easy to help your children build their early literacy skills at home! There are five practices that do this: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing. Building an Alphabet Box is a great way to support reading, talking, and playing on a daily basis in your home! Continue reading Literacy at Home: Alphabet Box
