Teaching Your Child to Read
By Janelle Spaulding

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Every step a child takes toward learning to read leads to
another.

- Listen to stories read aloud.

- Pretend to read.

- Learn how to handle books.

- Identify separate sounds in spoken language.

- Recognize simple words in print.

- Write words.

- Read simple books.

- Read simple books.

- Reading Together

Look for Books!

The books that you pick to read with your child are very
important.
Introduce your child to books when she is a baby. Don’t be upset if at first your child chews or throws a book. When your baby becomes a toddler, she will enjoy helping to choose books for you to read to her. If your child has special interests, such as dinosaurs or ballerinas, look for books about those interests.

By hearing and saying rhymes, along with repeated words and phrases, your child learns about spoken sounds and about words. Show Your Child That You Read. Ask your child to get one of her books and sit with you as you read your book, magazine, or newspaper. It’s the reading that counts. Learning about Print and Books

Your child will begin to understand that the letters form words and that words name pictures. How Does a Book Work?

Children are fascinated by how books look and feel. When your toddler watches you handle books, she begins to learn that a book is for reading, not tearing or
tossing around. As your child becomes a preschooler, she is learning that When your toddler watches you handle books, she begins to learn that a book is for
reading.

You read a story from left to right of a page. Read the title on the cover. Let your child help turn the pages. It takes time for a child to learn these things, but when your child does learn them, she has solved some of reading’s mysteries.

Writing and reading go hand in hand. As your child is learning one, he is learning the other. Writing the letters helps your child learn about their different sounds. Reading in Another Language When your child first enters school, talk with her teacher. Teachers welcome such talks.

Executive Summary by: Mashuri

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