1.Reading Corner and Book of the Day<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a>Reading corners are one of the best way to support early literacy<\/a> and raise children’s awareness of the written word. They promote independence, help children choose the best time and way to interact with books and because they are available all the time it is very easy for children to access them whenever they feel inspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Multi-Sensory Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should definitely give Multi-sensory Books <\/a><\/strong>a try as they caught children\u2019s attention immediately and provide fun for hours. They appeal to children\u2019s senses in a variety of ways:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. App Books and Apps<\/p>\n\n\n This section contains affiliate links<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are ebooks for children where upon touching your child\u2019s favourite characters will get animated, produce sounds, start speaking and even respond to your child\u2019s voice! <\/p>\n\n\n\n App Books are truly interactive and engage children in meaningful literary contexts. They often are fully personalised and may be used in a \u201cRead to me\u201d or \u201cI can Read Myself\u201d mode, and you can adjust the level of background music, sound effects and narration. Some books have built-in mini games or follow-up activities. This will help your children understand the story or the content better, as well as improve their reading and writing skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can subscribe to online libraries and have a nice new app book waiting for your kid every week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the best App Books are Amelia and the Terror of the Night<\/a> by OhNoo Studio and Learn with Homer, but also app books by Appy Kids are worth your attention. There are also some good apps that will introduce your children to letters and sounds and are fun to play. It is still not easy though to find really high quality apps designed with children in mind. Among the best ones that are child-friendly and effectively support literacy is a series of Endless Alphabet<\/a> and Endless Reader apps. These two actually helped our home educated son Julius learn to read and write on his own without any additional structured reading\/writing sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Make your own App Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a totally new approach to reading which offers all children a unique opportunity not only to read great books, but also to become a book author themselves. With the app such as Book Creator, iAuthor or Tappy Tap your children can now make their own digital and interactive app books! All they need to do is to take some photos, draw a picture or two, add some text or record their own voice, animate some parts if they wish to and their book is ready to be published. Children are fabulous story tellers by nature and they always have great ideas to share. Creating and publishing their own books makes them feel really proud and self-confident about their literacy skills and their creativity. At the same time, if they can see or read what other children created they feel more motivated to read and write new stories!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Word Hunt<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most effective ways to naturally support literacy is helping your child notice words around them. All children sooner or later realise that letters and then words form a useful coding system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n TIP:<\/strong> Draw your child\u2019s attention to various funnily shaped letters that you see around every day (e.g. in shop windows, on food products or toys, etc.) and simply read them out loud. You may do the same while reading stories to your child. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Let them pick the most funny looking, the biggest, the smallest or the weirdest letters or words they can find on the pages of their favourite books. Turn it into an exciting letter\/word hunt and make it a regular activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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