This document provides tips to help children at home with literacy, numeracy, and other foundation subjects. Some literacy tips include engaging in storytelling, using wordless picture books, and creating writing opportunities like lists, cards, and notes. Numeracy tips involve practicing everyday math skills like counting items, reading numbers, and identifying shapes, as well as asking investigative questions. It also recommends discussing topics learned each week and researching related topics online. Useful websites are listed that provide educational games.

1. USEFUL
TIPS TO
HELP
YOUR
CHILD AT
HOME

2. LITERACY TIPS FOR
READING AND
WRITING

3. • Story-telling
• Wordless picture books

4. • Making picture books
• Create writing
opportunities. E.g
shopping lists,
reminders, greeting
and birthday cards
and thank you notes
• Story/book
summaries

5. READING
Ask inference and deduction questions
• How do you think the character was
feeling?
• How can you change the story ending?
• What do you think is the main message of
the text or story
• Who were the main characters names?

6. NUMERACY TIPS

7. Everyday Math
• counting items bought after shopping.
• reading and adding numbers on car number
plates when driving.
• looking out for shapes around them.

8. Ask investigative questions
• how could we measure this?
• how do we find half?
• what is the best way to share this?
• finding change during shopping
Mental Math
• Times tables
• Number bonds
• Addition and subtraction facts.
• Multiplication and division facts.

9. TIPS FOR
FOUNDATION
SUBJECTS
• Discuss topics learnt each week.
• Give related topics to research on the
internet.

10. USEFUL WEBSITES
• www.mathisfun.com
• www.ixl.com
• www.gamequarium.com
• www.primarygames.com
• www.funbrain.com
• www.ictgames.com
• www. sheppardsoftware.com