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Introduction

Anti-Bias Curriculum

Staffing

Tour

Tour: Literacy

As early language and literacy (reading & writing) develops in the first three years of life and is linked to a child’s earliest experiences with books and stories, we have made sure that our entire center is literacy enriched. Interactions with literacy materials and with adult are the building blocks for language, reading and writing development. The Early Literacy theory emphasizes “the more natural unfolding of skills through the enjoyment of books, the importance of positive interactions between children and adults, and the critical role of literacy-rich experiences”.

As a result, we have surrounded the children with a plethora of ways to develop the necessary early literacy skills that are essential to literacy development. Tools used are magnetic letters, flannel stories, magnetic stories, felt stories, tapes, language games, language cards, puppets, photo cards. As well, the children are exposed to ways to make their own written work by using a variety of mediums to encourage drawing, scribbling and writing.

Children will come to understand that the printed word is a powerful form of communication and this is the foundation for becoming literate and childcare centers play a critical role in establishing the foundations of early literacy exposure.

Below are photos showing the children enjoying books: