Emergent Literacy In Reception Year
Our Reception students have been enjoying revising the letter sounds they have learnt by paging through magazines to look for the letter sounds. Once found they need to cut them out and paste the sound to match the sound on a colourful page.
This task is part of emergent literacy and combines quite a number of important skills such as fine motor skills, hand eye co-ordination, visual memory and letter recognition skills. As they page through the magazines students are exposed to letters in other fonts and also need to make the link between upper and lowercase letters.
Here are some fun ways to develop letter recognition at home:
- Writing letters on bathroom tiles using bath crayons.
- Writing with a whiteboard marker on a sliding door or mirror.
- Looking for known letters (and perhaps words) on number plates and signs in the community.
- Playing I spy to identify objects at home that begin with a specific letter (remember to use the phonetic sound (example: mmm, not ‘em’).
- Finding letters on a shopping catalogue.
- Writing letters in something fun on a tray, such as custard, chocolate pudding or dry substances such as icing sugar, jelly powder, rice or salt.
- Writing letters using a pointer finger on a steamed up mirror.
- Making letters out of playdough.
- Making letters out of salt dough and cooking it.
- Making letters with sweets on iced cupcakes.
- Finding letters in letter pasta.
- Writing simple words using Jelly Tot letters.
For more great ideas have a look at our Foundation Stage Pinterest Page: https://pin.it/1Of5Yuy
Bronwen Nuthall
Reception Year Teacher
