Encouraging Literacy in Preschool

Mother Goose Time includes so many great tools to help promote literacy in preschoolers in every monthly box.

The lesson plan books have charts to help assess your child's progress in each domain of learning.  

Each activity in the book shows you what areas are being worked on and can be observed.  There are always lots of activities to help increase literacy.

Each month focuses on 3 letters.  There are letter cards, cube cards, hands on letters, coloring pages, and games all designed to help reinforce the selected letters.

The hands on letters can be used to make simple words, which helps introduce the concept of letter sound and phonetics.

They can also be used in during the games to help with letter recognition.

Kids get to practice writing and letter formation with monthly name tags, post cards, and in their my little journals.  The younger kids started by scribbling at the beginning of the year, but as the year as progressed they have improved their fine motor skills and are able to trace their names.  The kids who were tracing their names at the beginning of the year are now working on writing their full names independently.  Repeated practice has leg to huge improvements.

Every month also comes with sight word pointers and easy to read books the kids are able to take home.  They are starting to realize that letters in a certain order form words.

Another resource that goes home are the monthly newsletters that have a list of suggested books parents can read at home.

The lesson plan books have suggested books, and online there is an even bigger book list that suggests books to read in class on each daily topic.

At the beginning of every month I pull out the new book of the month, puzzle, and magnetic story teller set.  When kids are done early with projects they can use these items independently.  We read the book during circle time and they can make up their own stories with the magnetic set, or retell the story I read.

If you have older kids who need a bit more of a challenge or more practice there is a workbook add on that goes with each monthly theme and reinforces the monthly letters and works on letter sounds, writing, etc.