The Literacy Center features web-based interactive literacy activities for preschool-aged children. Designed to support early reading skills, the activities provide opportunities for children to learn colors and color words, letters, numbers, phonemes, shapes, writing, and high frequency words.
All exercises require the Flash Player 5 plug-in; a free download of this plug-in may be accessed at the website. While these online activities may reinforce important early literacy skills, each online lesson must be supported by appropriate offline instruction, either at home or in school. (author/ncl)
Number, Number Sense and Operations for Early Childhood
Number and Number Sense
1.
Count to 10 in the context of daily activities and play (e.g., number songs).
10.
Identify and name numerals 0-9.
Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency
for Early Childhood
Word Recognition
6.
Recognize and name some upper and lower case letters in addition to those in first name.
Geometry and Spatial Sense for Early Childhood
Characteristics and Properties
3.
Identify, name, create and describe common two-dimensional shapes in the environment and play situations (e.g., circles, triangles, rectangles and squares).