Try new activities to boost your child's literacy skills

Parents looking for activities for children this winter have been told that it's easy to improve their literacy skills with a few fun tasks.

The Learning Well told parents that literacy activities for little ones are all about questions and answers and the child's involvement.
The news source said that children's questioning natures are the secret to boosting their literary ability.

Adults can ask their youngster a question using the words where, when, what, how, who or why to encourage their mind to come up with an answer.

The educational website suggested that parents can take their kids to a place of historical interest and use these six words in the same number of questions.
For example, parents could ask "what happened here?" or "when did people live here?"
As well as this, reading is a good activity and a child may get more from a book if it is bought for them rather than borrowed. This is because kids who own their own copy can re-read it, Henrietta Dombey, emeritus professor of literacy in primary education at the University of Brighton, said.

Posted by Clara Gasper

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