Help your child to read

Help your child to read

 Find ideas that work for your family with your child and their current development.

1. Read to your child.
2. Play rhyming games.
3. Sing the alphabet song with them.
4. Label things with their names from an early age.
5. Go to the library or get your own home library.
6. Have non fiction books as well as fiction available .
7. Tell stories.
8. Have books all over your house.
9. Teach the letter sounds by emphasizing the sounds in words they hear often from a young age.
10. Provide fun and interesting books to read.
11. Get a magazine subscription and read it together.
12. make play dough letters.
13. Play the alphabet game on road trips.
14. Read the mail together.
15. Make reading nook.
16. Clap out syllables.
17. Make letter crafts.
18. Make reading time.
19. Notice letters around!
20. Learn about how books work and other concepts of print.
21. Let them choose their own books at the library or bookstore.
22. Leave them notes in their lunch boxes .
23. Play with foam letters in the bath. Use bath toys to make up and tell stories.
24. Make your own books.
25. Play eye spy with letters and letter sounds. ” I spy something that starts with the letter B. Buh buh book!”
26. Give your children books as gifts.
27. Make up silly songs together.
28. Ask them to read the pictures to you before they can read the words.
29. Play library.
30. Read the book then see the movie for a family treat.
31. Play with word families.
32. Read books with no words and share storytelling duties.
33. Let them see you reading for fun.
34. Read nursery rhymes.
35. Explore and trace tactile letters.
36. Play listening games.
37. Retell and have your children retell stories after reading them.
38. Ask your child questions about elements of the story as you read with them. This works on comprehension.
39. Read books at lunchtime .
40. Take books with you when you travel.
41. build with letters blocks.
42. Do word search.
43. Play sight word games.
44. Download an e-reader app on your smartphone and instead of handing them it to play a game make it a treat to use it to read.
45. Read comics and graphic novels with them.
46. Talk your your kids using regular words not “kiddie” words.
47. Read them poetry.
48. Get their bodies moving to learn letters.
49. Read them their favorite book over and over and over even if it’s making you want to poke your eyes out.
50. Make reading part of their bedtime routine from day one!!