Early Literacy & Numeracy

Early literacy and numeracy education lays the groundwork for children’s future success in reading, writing, mathematics and problem-solving.

This category focuses on developing essential skills through engaging and hands-on activities

Here are some early literacy posts to get started with:

• Early Literacy Skills: What early literacy is and the 17 early literacy skills for preschoolers.
• Language Activities: These are 15 of the best play-based ways to develop children's language skills.
• Pre-Reading Skills: Before kids can learn to read, they must develop 5 pre-reading skills. Here are 10 simple ways to build them.
• Letter Recognition Activities: 14 fun ways to teach kids to identify letters.
• Reading to Your Children: Here are 19 reasons why you absolutely must read to your children every day!
• 17 Ways to Improve Listening Skills: Listening skills affect speech and language, reading, following instructions, socializing and more. Here are more activities:

  • • Listen-and-Draw Activities: Build concentration and the ability to follow directions with these 10 prompts.
  • • Multi-Step Directions: Start with these 2-step directions and make your way up to 4 or 5-part instructions.

• Play Auditory memory games and visual memory games with your preschoolers often!
• Build higher-order thinking skills during story time and with other activities such as:

  • • Asking kids open-ended questions
  • • Critical thinking activities

• Pre-Writing Activities: Why doing pre-writing activities before learning to write is a must, and simple ideas.

• • Name Writing Activities: Here are 10 ways to teach kids to write their name.

Here are some early numeracy posts to get started with:

• Early Numeracy Skills: An overview of the 6 early maths skills.
• The Best Way to Teach Maths to Preschoolers: Follow the concrete-pictorial-abstract method and try these 15 simple activities.
• One-to-one Correspondence: Why it's more important than rote counting
• Number Recognition Games: 13 fun ways to learn to identify numbers.
• Shapes Recognition Activities: Here are 10 simple shape activities to try at home or school.
• Teaching Money: 10 things you should be teaching your preschoolers about money.
• Learning About Time: Simplifying the abstract concept of time for young kids.
• Pattern Activities: Maths is filled with patterns. Teach children to build, identify and continue patterns.
• How to Teach Measurement: Here are 10 ways to teach preschoolers about measurement with non-standard units of measurement.
• Graphing Activities: Teach children about graphing in practical ways they can understand.