Learning and Teaching

Literacy

School holidays are just around the corner. This holiday season, consider adding some new traditions for your family that will make meaningful memories ad strengthen reading and writing skills. 

• Listen to audiobooks while you're travelling to visit family, 
• Read and sing Christmas carols and songs. Have a go at making up lyrics to familiar tunes. 
• Start a story-telling tradition by revisiting holidays of the past. Old family photographs at holiday gatherings will help prompt stories about your own life and family traditions.
• Plan special meals by reading recipes and cooking together.
• Write shopping lists and find the needed items at the shops by reading signs and labels. 
• Write and decorate menus or place cards for special holiday meals. 
• Set aside time just for reading. Curl up on the couch together and read aloud an old favourite or check out books about another culture's special celebrations.
• Write cards, notes or letters to relatives and friends.

Ideas from Reading Rockets

Simone Crist

Literacy Leader