Page 5 - Literacy Skills

Literacy Skills Development

Children’s readiness for graphic language must be nurtured - it does not just
happen. Their language ability will determine readiness for reading - What I can
say, I can write, what I can write, I can read.

The 6 Bricks activities in this section are designed to:

• enrich the pre-reading programme by encouraging the development of vital
reading readiness skills, e.g. visual & auditory discrimination and memory;
working memory; visual, auditory & kinesthetic sequential memory;
visual-spatial perception; patterning
• consolidate and reinforce necessary skills for successful, fluent reading and
comprehension in primary school children
• build effective habits of word attack and word perception abilities
• develop speech, language and vocabulary skills in order to enhance
children’s understanding of concepts and their ability to confidently express
themselves orally and in writing
• prepare the eyes for the skills needed for the task of reading e.g. near / far
focusing; fluent eye movements; perceptual efficiency - the ability to move
the eyes from left to right and to reverse sweep back to the left
• develop the gross and fine motor skills needed for handwriting
• provide fresh and different materials and ideas for a remedial programme

Children who are deficient in these important skills of reading will be seriously
handicapped in the most fundamental tool for effective work …
so get cracking with those 6 Bricks!

“The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more you learn,
the more places you’ll go.”

From Dr Seuss -
“I Can Read with my Eyes Shut”

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