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Child Development Education & Curriculum Language & Literacy Miscellaneous
Tips to Encourage Your Child's Reading From the Association for Library Service to Children - Start sharing books when your child is born, and don't forget to keep reading with children into their teen years.
- Make a time and a place for reading in your home and encourage talking about reading in your family.
- Take advantage of "waiting" time to share books: on trips, at the doctor's office, in line at the grocery store.
- Set a good example - read on your own.
- Allow your child to select books to read and be aware of your child's reading interests.
- Give books as presents.
- Get to know the children's librarian at your local public library.
- Register your child for a library card. Get the one free card that brings you a world of opportunity - no matter what your age.
- When preparing for family road trips, stock up on audio books from your library. Let your children choose some stories to listen to in the car. Have family members share favorite ghost stories and/or adventure stories around the campfire at picnics and on camping trips.
Born to Read: How to Raise a Reader - Begin when your child is born and spend time reading every day.
- Sing to your baby.
- Repeat nursery rhymes.
- Visit the library. Ask about storytimes. Borrow books to share with your baby at home.
- Choose books with colorful pictures and simple words--or no words at all.
- Read with expression--or just tell the story in your own words.
- Hold the book so your child can see the pictures clearly.
- Let your baby play with the book.
- Encourage your toddler to point out objects, repeat words, and talk about the story.
- Reread your child's favorite books over and over again.
- Use the technique of dialogic reading to help a child stay actively involved with a story and develop reading comprehension. Instead of reading the story straight through, ask the child open-ended questions about the story: "Why do you think Goldilocks ate Baby Bear's porridge?" "What do you think will happen next?"
- Read or tell stories in the language you are most comfortable with. It doesn't have to be English!
- Help your child develop phonemic awareness --the understanding that words are made up of smaller sounds--by playing games with the sounds of words and repeating rhymes.
- Tell stories about your family and your culture.
- Encourage older children to read to their younger brothers and sisters.
- Be an example to your children; let them see you read books too.
 Every Child Ready to Read: 6 pre-reading skills
Ready to Read.
A Parent is a a Child's First Teacher
Children get ready to read years before they start school.
Six pre-reading skills
your child can start learning from birth!
Parents can stimulate their child's language acquisition as well as appreciation and enjoyment of stories, songs and books by teaching their children these 6 pre-reading skills that have been identified by extensive research as necessary for later reading success.
Print Motivation
- Begin reading books early – even when your child is a newborn.
- Make book-sharing time a special time for closeness between you and your child.
- Let your child see you reading.
- Visit your public library often.
- Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read.
Vocabulary
- Talk with your child about what is going on around you. Talk about how things work, feelings and ideas.
- When your child talks with you (or your baby babbles), listen carefully and answer and add more detail to what she says.
- If your child is a baby or toddler, ask her lots of questions. Even if she does not have the words to answer, she learns that questions are invitations for her to respond.
- Speak in the language that is most comfortable for you.
- Read together every day. When you talk about the story and pictures, your child hears and learns more words.
- Learn together by reading some true books on subjects that your child likes.
- By the time children are two years old, they understand 300 to 500 words. You help your child learn new words by talking and reading together.
- Research shows that children who have larger vocabularies are better readers. Knowing many words helps children recognize written words and understand what they read.
Print Awareness
- Read aloud everyday print—labels, signs, lists, menus. Print is everywhere!
- Point to some of the words as you say them, especially words that are repeated.
- Let your child turn the pages. If your child is a baby, use board books or cloth books and have your child hold the book.
- Let you child hold the book and read or tell the story.
- Hold the book upside down. See if your child turns the book around.
- Being familiar with printed language helps children feel comfortable with books and understand that print is useful.
Letter Knowledge
- Write your child's name, especially the first letter.
- Make letters from clay or use magnetic letters.
- Talk about what is the same and what is different between two things.
- Point out and name letters when reading alphabet books, signs or labels.
- Show your child that the same letter can look different.
- Write words that interest your child (like "dinosaur" or "truck") using crayons, magnetic letters or pencil and paper.
- Knowing the names and sounds of letters helps children figure out how to say written words.
Phonological Awareness
Most children who have an understanding of phonological awareness have an easier time learning to read. Help your pre-reader become aware of the smaller sounds that make up words.
- Ask whether two words rhyme: "Do 'cat' and 'dog' rhyme?" "Do 'cat' and 'hat' rhyme?"
- Say words with word chunks left out: "What word would we have if you took the 'hot' away from 'hotdog'?"
- Put two words chunks together to make a word: "What word would we have if we put 'cow' and 'boy' together?"
- Say words with sounds left out: "What word would we have if we took the 'buh' sound away from 'bat'?"
- Say rhymes and make up your own silly, nonsense rhymes together.
- Sing songs. Songs have different notes for each syllable in a word.
- Read some poetry together. Make up short poems together. Say the words that rhyme.
- Say rhymes and sing songs in the language most comfortable for you.
- Most children who have difficulty reading have trouble with phonological awareness.
Narrative Skills
- Listen to your child carefully when he talks.
- Ask your child to tell you about something that happened. Let him tell you about a picture he drew.
- Tell your baby stories and talk to her about what you are doing.
- Share books together. Read favourite books again and again.
- Stories help children understand that things happen in order—first, next, last.
- Read a book together that your child already knows. Switch what you do. You be the listener and let your child tell you the story.
- Ask "what" questions. Point to a picture and say, "What's that?" or "What is happening here?"
- Add to what your child says. If your child says, "big truck" then you say, "Yes, a big red fire truck."
- Ask open-ended questions like, "What do you think is happening in this picture?"
- Help your child relate what is happening in the story to her own experience, for example, "What happened when we went on a picnic?"
- Talking with children develops comprehension skills and being able to tell or retell a story helps children understand what they read.
Every Child Ready to Read @ your library is a program of the Public Library Association & Association of Library Service for Children, divisions of ALA.
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