In this episode the focus is on the importance of comprehension for young children, infancy through age five. What is comprehension? Why is it important? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode the focus is on the importance of vocabulary development for young children, infancy through age five. What is vocabulary ? Why is it important? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode the focus is on the importance of read alouds for young children, infancy through age five. What is a read aloud? Why is it important? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode the focus is on the importance of alphabetic knowledge for young children, infancy through age five. What is alphabetic knowledge? Why is it important? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode the focus is on the importance of phonological/phonemic awareness for young children, infancy through age five. What is phonological awareness? What is phonemic awareness? Why is it important? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode the focus is on the importance of concepts about print for young children infancy through age five. What is print and environmental awareness? Why is it important in the pre-reading stage? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode the focus is on the importance of oral language development for young children infancy through age five. What is oral language? Why is it an important literacy skill? What simple things can you do at home to encourage and develop it? For more early literacy pre-reading skills resources, check out our free family early literacy pre-reading skills hub: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home

In this episode, you will hear a quick and easy parent friendly summary of the four domains of literacy: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. In future episodes, we will go into more detail with tips and activities that you can incorporate into your daily routine to help develop important, early literacy pre-reading skills for your children infancy through age five. Check out our free parent friendly literacy hub for tons of resources: https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home Get our free (no sign up required) parent/caregiver early literacy interactive newsletter here: https://www.bytheletterliteracy.com/blog Download our free (no sign up or email) early literacy handbook for parents and caregivers here: https://www.bytheletterliteracy.com/blog

Happy World Read Aloud Day and Welcome to our first episode!! A quick and easy rundown of important early literacy pre-reading skills terms for parents and caregivers who want to support their young children (infancy- age five years old) in their language and literacy learning, but need help with where to begin. Free Parent/Caregiver Literacy Hub https://sites.google.com/cougars.csusm.edu/letsgetlit/home Free Early Literacy Pre-reading Skills Paren/Caregiver Newsletters (no sign up required) https://www.bytheletterliteracy.com/blog *a list of references is included in our free parent/caregiver handbook that can be found on our LitEarly 0 to 5 early hub. Link is above.

Join me for Season 1 of the LitEarly 0 to 5 Podcast, launching February 7, 2024 in celebration of World Read Aloud Day. As a parent, experienced reading instructor and classroom teacher, I will discuss a range of topics related to the development of early pre-reading literacy skills for children ages infancy through five-years-old. Each episode is designed with busy families in mind, and follows a 3 to 5 minute format that aims to provide information and practical developmentally appropriate ideas for the home and early childhood education spaces, in an effort to promote language and literacy rich environments that support the development of critical pre-reading skills. Disclaimer-Recommended activities are not meant to take the place of formal evidence-based, developmentally appropriate reading instruction.