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Do you know when to begin teaching your child to read?
If you can find ways to make learning fun and exciting-something that your child actually wants to do with you-then begin as soon as possible.
8 specific ways you can make your child a reader!
Providing positive, enjoyable literacy experiences give young children opportunities to gain the knowledge, awareness, skills, and love of learning that they need to later learn to read independently. Here are 8 ways you can provide those experiences
Preparing your child cognitively to read
The ultimate goal of reading instruction is to enable children to understand what they read, so reading instruction has to be about more than simply matching letters and sounds -- it also has to be about connecting words and meaning.
Do You Show Your Love To Your Child?
Love is the biggest show-and-tell of them all and you need to make it a part of your every day life.
Lessons in literacy: How to raise a reader
As a basic foundation for learning to read and write, kids need strong speaking and listening skills. When you and other adults around your kids encourage them to talk, ask questions, and use dramatic play, it increases their vocabulary, allows them to hear and practice building sentences, and gives them more knowledge to understand spoken and written language.
Hand-eye coordination and visual discrimination key to literacy
Hand-eye coordination is a necessary skill for written language and the best way to help your child develop this skill is to let them play with toys and activities that involve looking at, using, and discriminating a number of elements.