A Method For Literacy Activities

The following four step process will greatly improve children's learning when carrying out literacy activities outside of school.
These actions for literacy activities will positively improve your children's literacy abilities.

These four steps to learning are set out as follows;

1) Whatever you are LEARNING

2) Take action STEPS

3) Ask, do you KNOW IT?

4) Do what WORKS


1) Learning

Schools are somewhere where your children can put in a lot of effort into the subjects they have to learn particularly with regard to literacy activities

Unfortunately, children are not so motivated to learn and do literacy activities in the home environment.

When you attempt to encourage children to do the things they did in school in the home it is often not a great experience for you or for your children. Children mostly want to do something else at home rather than as they see it; more learning and literacy activities.


School set homework is the one aspect of learning activity that hopefully does get attention as children simply have to do it as a requirement of the school.

Asking your children to do additional work will often meet great resistance.

So how do we help you to overcome this problem? The answer is that the work has to be more interesting and more fun.

And what does this mean? Well do literacy activities based on the things that they like; it could be based on the sport they like, TV, or the after school clubs they go to.

Believe it; all these things can be used as the basis for literacy activities. As an example getting your children to write about their favorite TV programme is a great literacy activity.
Try to put aside your own ideas as to what is proper work, particularly what you might view as proper work for learning or literacy activities.

Your children's world outside of school provides a massive resource that can be drawn on for literacy activities.

Keep this in mind;

YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR CHILD'S LITERACY DRAMATICALLY WITHOUT DOING SCHOOLWORK BY DOING FUN LITERACY ACTIVITIES.
2) Action Steps

The secret to genuinely effective literacy activities is to do them in small steps and to do them often. Little and often.

3) Do they know it?

To see how your children are progressing, you need to test. Though this sounds like it might be complicated it's not, all you have to do is ask your children to speak about what they know.


The really important thing is to get them to speak about what they do know, don't be focused too much on what they don't know. The secret to improved literacy is creating a habit in your children so that they do these literacy activities over and over again.

Therefore, encouraging them and advising them is a better motivator than being critical. What you have are results, not failure.

4) Do what works

Finally:

All children have their own preferences when it comes to how they learn and undertake literacy activities.

It is about looking at what works and then putting it into practice to make it a habit.

Using this four step process when learning and carrying out literacy activities outside school will greatly improve your children's learning and literacy abilities.