Incorporating literacy into the early childhood classroom, is just like making sure that your PB & J has peanut butter. Literacy is all around the early childhood classroom. We live and breath literacy every minute of every day! From as many read-a-louds that we can fit into a day, to a reading center, to teaching those beginning reading skills, that is what our day consists of! Math, science, and social studies, all get taught in our building through literacy!
I feel like most teachers have to find a fun and exciting way to introduce something new. Yet, literacy is the only way that has already been created for you by an author to do that exact thing.
During circle time, we incorporate literacy by reading books. We encourage students to bring in their favorite books when they are star of the week. We want to instill the love of reading in their little hearts. Just as it was done to the teachers in our building, many years ago. Math is focused off of books that incorporate numbers and number sense. All three teachers in our building plan our themes around literacy! Then we build from there!! Literacy is our peanut butter to our sandwich! It's the foundation to our program!
What do you consider the foundation to your program?
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