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telling and following along with their favourite book. Learning to write begins with
scribble and drawings. The activities below will help your child develop these skills.
1. Share rhymes and songs and encourage your child to join in.
2. Save safe cardboard and household items for your child to build with.
Ask your child to describe what they are building.
3. Have a dress-up box for your child to use for imaginative play.
4. Listen to your child and respond to their ideas with questions and ask
for more information.
5. Write down your child’s stories as they tell you and encourage him or
her to read it back to you.
6. Point out and talk about letters and words all around you. For example,
on cereal boxes, car number plates, signs.
7. Cook simple things together. Read out the recipe, talk through what you
are doing.
8. Join a toy library and choose toys together.
9. Look at junk mail and talk about the things for sale.
10. Provide materials and create a writing/drawing table or area.
11. Talk about family photos and histories.
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with a favourite song or rhyme and the
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As children move on to counting a collection of objects they begin to link each object
with one number name. In the beginning, encourage your child to touch each object as
they say the matching number’s name.
Children will begin by counting all objects in a group, for example, fingers and toes, the
buttons on their clothes, steps to the house or their toys.
When beginning to count a group of objects, children may arrange the objects in an order
to help them. Later they will be able to start counting at any object to find the total.
Some children will need to repeat the count of the objects if the arrangement has been
changed, such as the blocks were in a row and now they are in a group. This can be a
good way to explore the idea that the last number counted says how many there are in
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In the middle to upper years of primary
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Creating reading and writing opportunities at homeAs readers and writers, children explore their world everyday beyond school and home.
It’s important at home that you:
99. Show a genuine interest in your child’s reading and writing and viewing of all
different types of texts.
100. Let them see you read and write and tell them why you are reading and writing.
101. Talk to your child about their understanding and encourage their reading and
writing efforts.
102. Share family histories and stories through talking and encourage your child to talk
to older family members.
103. Discuss television shows or films that you have watched together.
104. Encourage your child to develop their own library of books.
105. Talk about world events and encourage your child to look at the different sides of
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