Early Literacy

Print awareness is often a student's earliest introduction to literacy. Promote print awareness in your children by reading aloud to them often, ask questions as you read, play letter or word games, teach kids about features of books (like title, author name, and page numbers), let children choose from several books that may interest them.

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Phonemic Awareness

Phonemes are the individual sounds that make up the English language. There are 44 phonemes in English but only 26 letters.

Help your children learn letter sounds and support decoding, a foundational skill for reading, by playing games with phonemes.

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Day by Day Ohio Family Literacy Calendar

Looking for something a little more planned out? Click here for a day-by-day calendar of literacy suggestions suitable to explore with your preschool and kindergarten aged children.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library provides one free book per month to children from birth to age five. If you live in Lucas County, you are eligible to enroll in this program. Click here to sign up.