10 activities to encourage your child’s literacy at home

Your child is no longer a baby and is about to start literacy. Time goes by fast and your little one, when you least expect it, will go out there writing and reading everything he sees ahead! To help in this new moment so important for parents and children, check out some activities you can do with children at home, in a playful and at the same time very simple way!

According to Ana Elisabeth Santos de Oliveira Lima, director of A Chave do Size school, literacy activities should begin even before literacy. “Parents must be attentive and promote situations that increase and facilitate literacy. Looking at magazines and cutting out everything you identify, organizing what you read into groups, organizing toys in boxes, painting using primary colors within drawings and separating objects by color help in this process”, advises Ana Elisabeth

1. Activity with figures and clothespins

Using play is essential. In this step by step, you will need glue stick or liquid, clothespin, permanent marker pen, colored pencils or crayons, and a magazine with a harder cover. And also various printed figures, preferably with two syllables! It is a simple activity that encourages, in addition to literacy, psychomotricity.

2. Can of letters

In this tutorial, psychopedagogue Taise Agostini teaches a very cool literacy activity: the letter can. According to the expert, literacy begins well before learning to read and write. This activity works on concentration, attention, letter and sound recognition. You will need a plastic can with an opening and all the letters of the alphabet to put inside it. Thus, the child associates the letter he draws with a word.

3. Dishes with syllables

In this activity, you will need disposable plates, both colored and transparent, and a marker for an overhead projector. It is a very interesting and fast way to learn. And very easy to do!

4. Vowel Games

The Vowel Game is also a very playful activity and starts with a craft line. You will need those paper flower vases, which are sold at party houses, to then paste the letters on the flowers and on the box itself. Then make engravings. And then the game is ready to start. To learn more, watch the video!

5. DIY – EVA Sensory Book – Literacy

Here are several tips on how to stimulate the child’s cognitive side: there is the book “With what letter starts?”, another activity to link the figures with the letters, that is, very simple actions to help your little one’s literacy!

6. How to teach the letters of the alphabet

This activity must be practiced by children from six years of age. With a pillow with all the letters, you will be able to work on the recognition of the letters, their sound and fine motor coordination when she buttons and unbuttons the letter on the pillow, for example. Different, right? See how it works in practice to teach the alphabet in your sequence!

7. Forming words

Forming words at home is also possible! With this activity developed by piscopedagoga Taise Agostini, you will need some stationery items: cardstock, scissors, that cardboard part of the toilet paper roll, glue, stiletto and black marker. See how to do it!

8. Forming words with a pet bottle

In this step-by-step guide, you will need pet bottles, a cardboard tray – those used at parties – and engravings, or drawings of animals and objects, glued to a cardboard. It is a very simple activity that can be done with children who are already beginning to learn to read and write. Take a look!

9. Letters and syllables with image data

And there’s one more cool tip: it’s the image data. With it, the child can learn by associating the image of the data with the word. It is also very simple to make and, on top of that, it still works on the playful and creative side of the child.

10. Unlocks

In this activity, Solange Moll teaches children who already know how to write to expand their vocabulary. It is an interesting game for a group of at least three children. How about trying it?

With so many tips, participating in this literacy moment for your child will be more fun than ever. How about choosing the activity that best suits your child’s literacy and experimenting?