What is International Literacy Day?
International Literacy Day take place every year to raise awareness and concern for literacy problems that exist within our own local communities as well as globally. Although progress has been made in improving literacy rates since the first International Literacy Day over 50 years ago, illiteracy remains a global problem.
International Literacy Day 2022 focuses on
'Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies'.
When is International Literacy Day?
Friday, 8 September
Activities:
- Family and community input - ask families and local libraries to donate unwanted books which can be use in your service.
- Creating a class book library; children in the preschool room can pick a book and borrow a class book which parents can read to them during the week.
- Invite a local libarian or have a zoom meeting where they can read books to children expand their vocabulary and assist with their literacy.
- Singing songs and rhymes with the babies and toddler as they love music and it's a fun way of helping them learn to speak and communicate.
- Infants activity - Repeat sounds your children make, or make up sounds and see whether the children can copy them. For example, ‘Cows say moo. Can you say moo?’
- Preschool activity - Play games like ‘I spy’ using colours. This can be lots of fun, especially for preschoolers. For example, ‘I spy with my little eye, something that’s green. What’s something green I might be looking at?’.
- Intentional teaching - educators implementing sight words with an illustration to allow the children to begin to recognise and being to read words.
- Implementing flash cards of letters and learning the alpabet phonics to sound out each letters - Ants in for apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5QGYDhKhg4)
- Reading stories - Try books with rhyme, rhythm and repetition. Many children enjoy books by Dr Seuss and Pamela Allen – for example, The cat in the hat or Doodledum dancing.
Let’s work to develop children’s literacy skills further and celebrate the exciting world of reading and writing!