Celebrate Reading With your Child

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Celebrate Reading With
your Child!

• A Guide For Parents
• By Lisa R. Lucente
• Special Educator

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FACTS FIGURES (from the National Center for
Family Literacy Research Department, January,
2003)

• Children who are read to 3 or more times a week
  by a family member are more likely to recognize
  all letters of the alphabet than children who
  read less frequently.
• Children who are read to frequently are more
  likely than those who are not to count to 20 or
  higher, write their own names, and read or
  pretend to read.
• Hearing a parent talk is your babys first step
  toward becoming a reader.
  
• Oral reading at home to parents, guardians, or
  other family members promotes better readers.
  
• Learning to read and write is critical to your
  childs success in school and beyond.
  
• For more information visit
• Simple Strategies for Creating Strong Readers
• Or call 1-800-USA-LEARN at the U. S. Department
  of Education.

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Simple Strategies To Help Your Child Become a
Better Reader

• Read your childs favorite book over and over
• Discuss new words ask your child if he/she knows
  what words mean
  
• Stop and ask about the pictures and about what is
  happening
  
• Read from a variety of childrens books fairy
  tales, song books, poems,
  
• information books, biographies, autobiographies,
  mysteries
  
• Read many stories with rhyming words and repeated
  lines invite your child to join in on these
  parts
  
• Invite your child to read with you every day
  make it a daily routine
  
• For beginning readers point word by word as you
  read to help your child
  
• learn that reading goes from left to
  right
  
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Over their first 6 years, most children

• Talk and listen
• Listen to stories and read aloud
• Learn how to handle books
• Learn about print and how it works
• Write with scribbles and drawing
• Recognize simple words in print
• Write words
• Connect what they already know to what they hear
  and read
  
• Sum up what a story is about
• Predict what comes next in stories and poems
• Write individual letters of the alphabet
• Identify letters by shape and name
• Identify separate sounds in spoken language

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Parent-child literacy activities WHAT YOU CAN
DO

• Attend Open House, Back-to-School nights,
  Parent-Teacher conferences
  
• Volunteer for your childs school or join a
  committee
  
• Talk to your child! Ask them questions that
  require specific answers, such as, What did you
  do in Math, Reading, Science today?
  
• Assure your children get to school on time and
  instill the importance of school attendance.
  
• Provide a wide variety of reading and writing
  materials at home for your children.
  
• Engage in a wider range of reading and writing
  activities with your children VISIT THE LIBRARY
  TOGETHER!

• Avoid over-correcting during the reading session
• TALK to your children! Let them know you are
  interested in their learning experiences
  
• Let your child see you read read your
• favorite book while your child reads
• Supervise/Minimize television viewing
• and video games (Did You Know by age 11-12 your
  child may witness as many as 100,000 acts of
  violence on TV? ) to learn more- visit
  Literacy Fact Sheets Overview

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For Information On Specific Topics or Age Groups
Visit Simple Strategies for Creating Strong Rea
ders

• Click on the following links for
• Multiple-language books Resources for Children
• Encouraging writing As Simple as ABC and
  Write On
  
• Rhyming Activities Rhyme with Me Its Fun,
  Youll See!
  
• Learning Letters As Simple as ABC
• What Libraries Have to Offer Visiting the
  Library
  
• The Importance of Talking and Listening
  Chatting With Children
  
• Helping your child love books A Home for My
  Books
  
• AND SO MUCH MORE!
• Visit this website for more information and
  topics relating to
  
• Childrens Health/Family
  Fun/Home Schooling/Kids Disabilities/
  
• Kids College/Parent
  Involvement
  
• Education World