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.

"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

The Favorite of child in looking at literacy artifacts, such as books, magazines, newspapers and other forms of labels. generally prefer to see the print at the start since the age of three years. But, before that age, many children who like to explore the print-materials, such as books his parents.

Many activities of children who do show the existence of behavioral indicators of literacy, often children do something, like watching the food pack label, and pictures from magazines of his parents, and when they observe nameplate of a shop. And others.

Infants 0-6 months

• Books with simple, large pictures or designs
• with bright colors.
• Stiff cardboard, "chunky" books, or fold out books that can be propped up in the crib.
• Cloth and soft vinyl books with simple pictures of people or familiar objects that can go in the bath or get washed.

Storybook Reading becomes an important part in early literacy activities, because in this way, children will find pleasure. Including the ability to provide of literacy for children. Parents are important for taking the time to read story books for children, by selecting topics of interest and preferred by children.

The age of children enjoy reading and writing generally at age of 3 years (Early language and literacy). They began to know that writing and reading provide a signal, or contain an information.

Language development occurs when children listen to conversations of parents, the environment, it grows from childhood. as well as objects that exist in the surrounding neighborhood.

Many people are sometimes wrong in thinking about the importance of literacy, their thinking that literacy will provide loads of activities for children. Because at the time the child is playing activities.

Early literacy is an activity performed by children in order to develop their language skills, including ability to read and write, done from an early age.