Young children are eager learners and can develop literacy
skills in a variety of ways. In this stage, your child:
• Likes to be read to and to look at books or words
• Learns about words by playing with letter blocks,
looking at picture books, playing with magnetic letters,
singing songs and reading simple traffic signs or logos
on food packages
• Begins to understand that his or her own thoughts
can be turned into text, whether on paper or on a
computer, by using pictures, symbols and letters
• Begins to act like a reader – for example, holds a book
or e-reader, or works a computer mouse and pretends
to read
• Begins to act like a writer – for example, holds a pencil,
crayon or marker and pretends to write, types on a
keyboard, makes letters with modelling clay
• Uses both recall and pictures to tell the story
• Is curious and asks lots of questions about his or
her world
Online resources at TVO Kids