How is my child's reading going to get better if I am doing the reading?
Reading and talking about books with children builds:
- Vocabulary
The more words children know when they start to learn to read, the easier it is for them to connect letters and sounds to words that they know. - Grammar
- Background knowledge
- Knowledge about books and print
Children learn the direction of reading (left to right), the difference between words and pictures, about letters, words, punctuation, and spaces between words, about the front, middle, and back of a book, about titles and authors. - Differences between the language in books and everyday conversation.
- Story structures, learning how to “hold” a story in their mind, and learning how
to ask and answer questions from the text. - They learn to love reading and stories.
Early Reading First I CAN READ!
2007
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education
2007
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education