{"id":2422,"date":"2024-04-06T03:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.learningally.org\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:10:17","slug":"national-family-literacy-month-what-can-early-literacy-look-like-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningally.org\/resource\/national-family-literacy-month-what-can-early-literacy-look-like-at-home","title":{"rendered":"National Family Literacy Month. What Can Early Literacy Look Like At Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reading is such an awesome pastime, but how do we keep children turning the pages? Host a family literacy night! Learning Ally held its first virtual Family Literacy Advocacy Night with a large school district in the northeast. It was such a wonderful success that we wanted to share the takeaways with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI Promise\u201d by LeBron James<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our family literacy event brought teachers, parents, and children together to hear a story read aloud<\/a> by Michael Burgess, a Learning Ally professional narrator, who read LeBron James\u2019 book, \u201cI Promise<\/a>.\u201d Michael narrated the story with incredible expression and depth to demonstrate how reading aloud with authenticity can engage and inspire children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attendees talked about the story. We laughed; we shared reasons why literacy is important in school and at home. We discussed the myriad ways that literacy surrounds us, what activities work best for reading engagement, the impact culturally-relevant books and diverse literature can have, and creative ways to find joy in reading every day. Pictorial literacy was discussed, and we experienced how to read a book through storytelling using relevant text-based words. The live read-aloud demonstrated the powerful benefits of read-alouds<\/a>. We discovered COUNTLESS opportunities to interject literacy in the home environment to strengthen skills in vocabulary, comprehension, critical thinking, and background knowledge. We made a fantastic Word Cloud about literacy activities in the home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Give Children a Voice <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone agreed that reading should always be engaging and never a punishment, and gave suggestions for practicing literacy at home. For example, reading a recipe, reading street signs, reading on the playground, bath time, bedtime, morning, noon, and nighttime. Any time is a good time to read! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees promised to show up for our children and advocate for literacy, and to aid children in discovering who they are as people and their personal interests. We agreed to help teachers understand \u201cwho our child is,\u201d their strengths, and interests. We promised to model literacy advocacy in our own lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating a Culture of Readers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for good ideas to advocate for literacy? Here are some ideas from our family literacy night event:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n