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