Six Early Literacy Skills

  Six Early Literacy Skills :

 There are six early literacy skills which are

useful for students. It helps to develop the

student’s skills. It improves the knowledge and

awareness about words. It develops the student’s

literacy. These six literacy skills are discussing

below.

 Print Motivation

 Print Awareness

 Letter Knowledge.

 Narrative Skills.

 Phonological Awareness.

 Vocabulary.

 Print Motivation:

 It is a first and basic step in early literacy from the six early skills. The researchers believe that print motivation is very important for children for purpose of print motivation; first teachers improve the attention of children to the reading. Print motivation is a motivation which motivates the pupils to the books. In this way the students motivated to the written text.

They get interest in reading. In this process children get interest in reading and books. They love with books. They read for fun and enjoyment.

 Print Awareness :

 Print awareness is a way to understand the text. It is

a process to know about the written form of text. It is a

skill to use for a purpose to aware about written text.

Students will be aware by the help of pictures, which the

teacher shows them in book or on the board.

 Letter Knowledge:

 Letter Knowledge is the skill use for to know about

the Letters, to understand their shapes with names and

remember them. They can improve their knowledge of

letters by practice and by repeating them. Teacher should

start the letter practice by the name of every object as like; 

A for apple, b for ball, c for cat. At that time they don’t

know about the names of objects in English and their

spelling but they learn by practice.

 Narrative Skills:

 Narrative means to tell the story or events.

Narrative skills are used to tell the stories to the students.

In the stories students get interest and attention to listen

carefully. Stories may in in the form of poems, and

poems read by rhythms, which helps students to get

interest and also helps them to learn easily.

 Phonological Awareness:

It is the Awareness about the words and understands their relation with other words. It helps to understand that how to pronounce the words. It shows that how words are joined and how to pronounce them. It helps to know the relation of letters; it helps to know about the connection of letters and their phonemes. It helps to learn the syllable and rhythm. Syllable is the process of segmentation and blending of words. Rhymes are the awareness of construction and connection.

 Vocabulary :

Vocabulary is the collection of words. It is the knowledge of words. It is a process of accumulation of words. It is a process to acquire the meaning of words. It is the process to gather the information of words.