Early Literacy

I looked at that early literacy is not just the ability to read and write when an early age, but that culture is created along with the growth and development of children, especially in a family environment. When the children look for and find the pleasure and fun of reading material, then it is the spirit of literacy that has emerged. This spirit will appear if there is a culture built.

Reading storybooks to children, will provide the ability for children to early literacy, as well as cultivate a fondness for children to read at a later date, following a few simple tips in reading stories to your child:

• Provide books with simple stories and pictures.
• Stories are easy and exciting it would be easy to remember by a child.

Adult students and community leaders rallied in City Hall Park against proposed cuts to adult literacy programs Thursday.

The mayor's budget proposal reduces funding to English, General Educational Development (GED) and basic adult education programs by $13.2 million.

"A mother reading a story book for children, with children absorbed in listening to the story line. Parents lovingly respond to any questions from children about the part of the story "of the story can be seen that the activities of literacy is not teaching children to write letters, but rather to introduce a culture that familiar with the readings. Of course, since developing early literacy skills in the first 5 years of life. The success of children in school, largely determined by culture of reading in their family environment. So "Early literacy is not an activity of teaching reading. "

Below are examples of skills that can be practiced at home.
- Design book: a child drawing a book cover with his work,
- Monthly exhibitions of painting: the child is given time to paint / draw. Invite friend or relative as a spectator.
- Colors of the world: students trying to find a wide spectrum of colors with different blends watercolor on media. Give name of every color who successfully made the child and codified or exhibited.

Children are unique individuals, but reversed its uniqueness requires treatment not simple, experts say the treatment of children based on child development, or oriented to the needs of children.

Carol Gestwicki has contributed greatly to understanding child development. In his book, Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Curriculum and development in Early Childhood Education. USA: Thomson Delmar Learning.

Using the pop-up books one way to spark interest in children at book, and make them happy. Many storybooks for children with pop-up facility, which is a striking picture book comes out when opened.

When parents tell to children with use pop-up book. Children will be carried away the storyline. Accompanied by a sensation which then caused by pop-up book. Make a child scream or surprised. So it is good for task-emosiaonal social development of children. 9GN8HY8XD92C