Early Childhood

Activities to promote literacy & numeracy

Read and share a range of books and other texts with children
Provide a literacy-enriched environment including display print in home languages and Standard Australian English
Incorporate familiar family and community texts and tell stories
Engage children in discussions about books and other texts that promote consideration of diverse perspectives.

Mimic and respond to babies’ sound to encourage them to communicate
Listen to and respond to children’s attempts at new words
Engage in sustained communication with children about ideas and experiences, and extend their vocabulary
Include real-life resources to promote children’s use of mathematical language
Create stories with children using artistic methods such as painting or drawing or using songs or plays.

Provide resources that encourage children to experiment with images and print
Join in children’s play and co-construct materials such as signs that extend the play and enhance literacy learning.

Provide children with access to a range of technologies
Try creating a digital story with the children
Teach skills and techniques and encourage children to use technologies to explore new information and represent their ideas
Encourage collaborative learning about and through technologies between children, and children and educators.

Show children patterns in their environment and talk about how they are used, including the relationship between letters and sounds
Provide children with access to a wide range of everyday materials that they can use to create patterns and to sort, categorise, order and compare
Engage children in discussions about symbol systems, for example, letters, numbers, time, money and musical notation
Encourage children to develop their own symbol systems and provide them with opportunities to explore a range of symbol systems.