Simple Ways to Help Emerging Readers
Insights for Families
Without doubt, working with your child can help him/her achieve success in reading and learning. The following simple strategies will make a significant difference in helping your child develop into a good reader and writer.
- Read aloud, provide print materials, and promote positive attitudes about reading and writing.
- Invite your children to read with you every day.
- When reading a book where the print is large, point word by word as you read. This will help children learn that reading goes from left to right and understand that the word they say is the word they see.
- Read your child's favorite books over and over again.
- Read many stories with rhyming words and lines that repeat. Invite your children to join in on these parts. Point, word by word, as they read along with you.
- Discuss new words. For example, "This big house is called a palace. Who do you think lives in a palace?"
- Stop and ask about the pictures and about what is happening in the story.
- Read from a variety of children's books, including fairy tales, song books, poems, and information books.
Reading well is at the heart of all learning. Children who can't read well don't learn well. Help make a difference for your children.
