Standard 2 / Indicator 2.1

• Demonstrate changes in home environment that support literacy and child development.

• Provide age-appropriate child development activities.

Recommended:

You should complete a lesson to learn about Child Development before completing this lesson.

Materials:

Vary depending upon activity

Family Literacy Journal  (view instructions here)

Lesson:

The first three years of life are when a child needs the most parent contact and interaction.  Infants and toddlers grow and learn very rapidly, and you are their first teacher.  Older children also need help and support from parents in order to grow into healthy adults.

There are many areas of development in a child:

• physical - crawling, walking, running, kicking, drawing, writing

• language - cooing, responding, speaking, understanding

• communication - talking, understanding, conversation

• intellectual - thinking, problem-solving

• social - behavior, cooperation, sharing

• emotional - confidence, self-esteem, coping

There are also many things that you can do as a parent to help your child(ren) learn the skills they need in each of these areas to be successful in life.

Choose an activity from a website listed below to find age-appropriate developmental activities to do with your children.  These activities are Interactive Literacy Activities (ILA) and can be found in the Parent's and Children's areas of this website.

Activity:

1. Find two activities to share with your child. 
   Choose a language activity for you and your child to do together
   Choose a physical activity for you and your child to do together.

2. You can find them in several areas on the website:
   Interactive Literacy Activities (parent and child together)
   School Readiness
   Children's site

Assessment:

  You will complete two journal entries

1. Describe the language activity

2. Describe the physical activity

Print or email the two assessments for your mentor.

ILA journal entry.  [Word format to email] or [Adobe format to print] get adobe acrobat

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