Learning From Home: The Best Spaces for Your Children
This year’s International Literacy Day will be celebrated worldwide under the theme, "Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces” and will be an opportunity to rethink the fundamental importance of literacy learning spaces to build resilience and ensure quality, equitable, and inclusive education for all.
Children will need a place to study at home, whether it is for homework or full-time studying.. You can help by providing a place at home for them, in which they can concentrate and study independently, within a quiet environment.
The home learning environment is the combination of everything you and your family do and the spaces your child has access to that affect your child's development and learning. This includes the opportunities your child has to play and interact with books, objects and everyday experiences to help them make sense of their world.
The most important feature though, are their interactions with people who provide the love, security, encouragement, conversation and positive role models to help your child to thrive.
A good home learning environment encourages children and young people to have positive attitudes to learning, to be curious, and to have confidence in themselves.
Creating the Environment
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You should also consider a comfortable study chair, as your child will likely be sitting for a while, while immersed within their work!
Reading for Meaning
Parents often ask how they can help their children learn to read; and it’s no wonder that they’re interested in this essential skill. Reading plays an important role in later school success. One study even demonstrates that how well 7-year-olds read predicts their income 35 years later!
Here are 5 practical recommendations for helping your kids with reading:
Teaching reading will only help - Sometimes, parents are told early teaching is harmful, but it isn’t true. You simply can’t introduce literacy too early. The “dangers of early teaching” has been a topic of study for more than 100 years, and no one has ever found any convincing evidence of harm. Moreover, there are hundreds of studies showing the benefits of reading to your children when they are young.
Read To Them - If children refuse to try reading on their own, the first thing to do is to read to them. Choose an interesting story that they are willing to listen to. Imagination could unlock the universe and children will read one story after another. If children want to repeat reading their favourite story, encourage them to do so.
Take Children To The Library Or Bookstore - In the library, parents can take children to the storybook section and allow them to choose a favourite book that they can bring home.
Play Decoding Games - When playing this game, parents can teach children how to sound words out. It is easier for them to put words together if they are familiar with the sound of the letters. With proper word decoding skills, they can identify words more easily. The decoding process can be even more fun if parents incorporate games into the learning process.
Sing The Alphabet Song - If your child has problems memorising letters, this is a proven solution. Children can learn songs more easily and it’s also a good way for them to understand phonics. Sing the Alphabet Song regularly each day, until children can do it on their own. Once children memorise the letters, parents can associate them with certain shapes.
“From the day our children are born (yes), to the day they tell us to stop, we should read to them,” says Michael Rosen, British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
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