How to Encourage Young Reader

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INTRODUCTION "The majority of reading problems faced by today's adolescents and adults could have been avoided or resolved in the early years of childhood." --National Research Council (1998) As a parent of a young child, you are probably more concerned about your child's progress in reading than in any other subject taught in school. To achieve in math, science, English, history, geography, or any other subject, your child must have reading skills that are developed to the point that most of them are automatic. He can't be struggling to recognize words in a school textbook when he is trying to read quickly to grasp the meaning of the text. In other words, children must learn to read before they can read to learn. BODY What Are Some Ways To Encourage Young Readers? Talk with your infant or young child before he learns to read. Talking with your child before he even speaks will help him learn important language skills. Most children need strong oral language skills if they are to develop as readers and writers. Using short, simple sentences, you can talk about your daily activities, what he is seeing and doing, his environment, sizes of objects, the shapes of signs, and so forth. • Sing songs and recite poems and rhymes that have repetitive sounds. Repetition makes it easier for your child to pick up on the patterns in the sounds you make. • Make sure your child's day care provider, nursery school teacher, or preschool teacher reads aloud daily and offers books for your child to look at. • Model good reading habits. Help your child understand that reading is important by letting him see you reading maps, books, recipes, and directions. Suggest reading as a free-time activity. Keep books that are of interest to your child in an easy place for him to reach. • Visit your local library. While you're there you can sign your child up for preschool story

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