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:
- 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.
There are more literacy and numeracy activities below:
Early Literacy Skills
Activities to develop pre-reading skills, language and listening, visual and auditory perception, and pre-writing skills.
Maths Concepts and Activities
Activities to develop concepts such as number sense, one-to-one correspondence, shape and spatial sense, and measurement.
