March is Reading Month

It is very important that your daycare center be licensed by the state.

Daycare centers that support children's early reading skills...

• Keep an orderly classroom that encourages children to enjoy learning
• Have adults that read a lot to the children, and talk with them and listen carefully
• Use many creative ways to help children learn language
• Have many books that children can handle
• Have lots of print on labels, signs, and posters
• Have letters made of different materials so children can pretend to write
• Play games that ask children to listen carefully, such as "Simon Says" and "Mother, may I?"
• Ask children to name colors, shapes, animals, familiar objects, parts of the classroom
• Have singing and rhyming games
• Encourage scribbling, drawing, writing

For more information, visit the website below.

Additional information is available at: http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading

posted 03/05/2007 [Early Childhood]