READING TIPS 

  • Encourage your child to read every day.
  • When reading large print point to words as you read them. This will help children recognize that reading goes from left to right and top to bottom.
  • Read your child's favorite book over and over.
  • Read stories with rhyming words and repeated lines. Have your child help with those words.
  • Discuss new words. Talk about what they mean.
  • Ask about the pictures in the story and what might be happening in the story.
  • Read from a variety of children's storys. These can be nursery rhymes, fairy tales, song and poem books, and also informational text.
  • Make a game of reading lables on boxes and signs along the roadside. Look for words that start with a certain letter of the alphabet.
  • Set aside 20 minutes a day for reading. Read to, read with, or listen to your child read.
  • Take your child to the library and check out books together.