
Labeling & Literacy
4/14/2023 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Talking about the importance of how labeling items promotes literacy.
When we label things in classrooms, it helps children to recognize letters and words, and it makes reading and writing more fun. Labeling allows children to integrate many literacy skills while cementing their understanding of print as a representation of spoken words.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.

Labeling & Literacy
4/14/2023 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
When we label things in classrooms, it helps children to recognize letters and words, and it makes reading and writing more fun. Labeling allows children to integrate many literacy skills while cementing their understanding of print as a representation of spoken words.
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- When we label things in our classroom, it helps children to recognize letters and words, and it makes reading and writing more fun.
Labeling means putting words on objects, so children can easily identify them.
As a fun activity, children could label gardening tools according to specific letters they may be learning that day or week.
- Maddie, can you tell me what this is right here?
- [Instructor] Labels can help children remember words because they can see them over and over again.
- [Teacher] And what does the letter W make?
- Watermelon.
- [Teacher] Watermelon, good job.
- Labeling is really important for helping children learn to read and write.
- [Teacher] Can you say the letter P?
- Labeling allows children to integrate many literacy skills while cementing their understanding of print as a representation of spoken words.
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