Excite Children about Learning to Read!

Interesting Ways to Read to Your Child:
● Read, memorize and sing Nursery Rhymes.
● Read Fairy Tales. Children identify with the main characters who often overcome great difficulties. This also helps to develop both their imagination and their problem-solving skills.
● Read books that make you laugh together. This builds relationships and a sense of security.
● Read tongue twisters (Like Dr. Seuss’, O Say Can You Say). Yes! It is entirely permissible to roll on the floor laughing while doing this.
● Read stories that your child enjoys, over and over and over again. Then let them read them to you, over and over and over again.
● Let your child read to you, beginning with picture books where there are no words. Have them tell their own story based on the pictures in the book.
● Sound out words as a child begins to read.
(Yes, I know that some educators are promoting simply memorizing words based on recognition, but my personal experience says that phonics works and gives them a system to figure a word out when it's one they haven't seen before.)
● Attend library storybook and reading events.
● Read together instead of watching TV.