Literacy components

Language and vocabulary

(speaking, listening and
understanding)

Letters and words (knowing the

names of letters and their
corresponding sounds)

Phonological awareness (identify

and manipulate sounds)

Examples from my childcare centre

This is divided into four categories1. Listening e.g. Read a story and ask
simple questions on the story.
2. Speaking e.g. Ask open-ended questions
to encourages children to think creatively
and express ideas.
3. Reading e.g. Children pick a book of their
choice and it is read to them thus offering
children with new ideas, information and
extend on their language and vocabulary.
4. Writing e.g. a laminated sheet with simple
two and three letter words and a tray of
sand. Children trace the letters with a finger
on the sand and relate letters to sound.
Children on arrival
Place their bags in the compartment with
the appropriate letter of their first name A to
G; H to O and P to Z.
Hang coats and jackets that have their
names on individual coat hangers.
Stick their nametags (magnetic) on the
board to signify attendance.
Rhyming words educators when reading, singing,
storytelling etc. will ask child/children to form
rhyming/matching words.
Generate words that either start or end the same
way.
Activities are made up with pictures that match
rhyming words e.g. hat and mat