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Teaching Children To Read
What You Can Do as a Parent

• Read to children from the time of infancy. Reading helps to introduce a small baby to language. Read with lots of inflection in your voice so that baby can hear the rhythm and sound of your voice.

• Read books to young children that have bright pictures with simple concepts (ex: one picture per page) or books with textured pictures so that the baby can feel
  the story as it is read.
   

• For older children, create a story book about your family. Pictures can have captions to read or photos just to talk about. Making a family book personalizes the activity and encourage children to think up their own creative stories.
   

• Connect what you read with your child's every day experiences. For example if you read a book about sea shell, then take your child for a walk on a local beach and look for shell and other sea life. This reinforces the idea that books expand our experiences with our world.
   

• Read a variety of materials to your child including: books, magazines, newspapers, instructions, packages and signs in your neighborhood. This teaches children the use and importance of reading.
   

• Include reading into normal daily family roureading.
   

• Include reading into normal daily family routines such as cooking and cleaning.
   

• Use reading as a reward, never as a punishment. This teaches your child that reading is a privilege.

MANY RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT CHILDREN WHO
ARE READ TO IN THEIR HOME DO BETTER IN SCHOOL