Parents involvement in Early Literacy (Essay Map)

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Thesis Statement: Parents involvement in early literacy is the key to childrens academic
success.

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Topic Sentence: Parents can help children to develop their literacy skills in speaking and
listening.
Questions: i) How can parents help to develop their listening and speaking skills?
ii) What can parents do to support their childrens growing literacy skills?
Support: i) Parents should encourage conversations with their children by being a role model
of how to listen and take turns when speaking.
ii) By exposing children to various types of music, theatre and cinema, parents have
carried out their responsibility in helping to develop childrens listening skill.

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Topic Sentence: Reading skill is important in order to improve literacy.
Questions: i) How can parents improve childrens reading skills?
ii) When can parents start to help their children improve in reading skill?
Support: i) Parents can encourage their childs reading by showing how to find information
that is of interest to them.
ii) Reading skills can be improved anytime at home. Try to hold D-E-A-R times that
stands for Drop Everything and Read at home where you can read without
interruption.

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Topic sentence: Listening, speaking and reading are not enough to be a literate person.
Parents should also help the child to improve their writing.
Questions: i) How to improve childrens writing?
ii) What can parents do?
Support: i) Parents can lead their children by showing example such as regularly writing
letter, thank you note, and Christmas and birthday cards.

ii) Children should be encouraged to start writing their own journal to record their
activities, thought and special occasion.

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Topic Sentence: Parents involvement should not only be at home but also at school. Parent
and teacher should work together to help improve and support childs literacy
skills.
Question: i) Where should parent start?
Support: i) Parents can start to involve themselves at school by knowing their childrens
teacher. Parents can inform the teacher about childs life at home and learn what is
going on in the school.
ii) Parents can support their child as much as they can by attending their special
occasion.

Conclusion
Summary: Parents involvement in speaking, listening, reading and writing is the key to
childrens success achievements.
Recommendation: i) Consistency of developing childrens literacy skills should be
maintained by informing other keepers such as childcare staff, preschool teachers or babysitters of your childs developing literacy skills.
ii) Parents can ask to be kept informed of their childs progress and interest
in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Final Comment: A child is literate when they know how to use language with confidence and
parents are the most influential teacher and can encourage them in many ways
to enjoy speaking, listening, reading and writing.