Telling Stories and Playing with Alliteration—Keeping Literacy Fun During the Holidays

Introduction

The holidays are a time for storytelling—whether it’s reading a favorite holiday book by the fire or creating your own tales as a family. Storytelling isn’t just a fun activity; it’s a powerful tool for developing literacy and language skills in young children. One great way to make storytelling more interactive and educational is by using alliteration, where words in a sentence or phrase start with the same letter sound.

Alliteration adds a musical rhythm to language and helps children pay closer attention to the sounds that make up words. As you tell holiday stories, try weaving in alliteration to highlight letter sounds your child is learning. For example, you could create a story about a “jolly jingling jester jumping joyfully” or a “winter wind whisking wildly.”

To take it a step further, encourage your child to come up with their own stories using alliteration. You can also turn this into a game by picking a letter and seeing how many words you can come up with that start with that sound, then incorporating them into a story. It’s a fun, festive way to strengthen your child’s phonemic awareness and creativity at the same time.

Want to make it even more engaging? Pair your storytelling with letter ornaments! As you tell stories featuring a specific letter sound, hang the corresponding letter ornament on the tree. This creates a visual and tactile connection between the sound and the letter, reinforcing what they’re learning.

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These blog posts weave in the holiday spirit with literacy activities like crafting and storytelling, while subtly promoting Grow As You Go’s products as complementary tools for fostering letter-sound acquisition and phonemic awareness.

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