Reading Tips for Beginning Readers
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What differences can reading aloud to a child for 30 mintes per day make? |
1. Read the title to your child and discuss what the book may be about.
2. Take a "picture walk" through the book. Page through it, looking at the pictures and taling about them. 3. Begin reading to your child. Allow your child to read with you or on his/her own. 4. When your child gets stuck on a word, encourage the use of these stragegies: -get your mouth ready & say the first sound -use the picture to help you. (Some parents cover up the pictures. Remember, your chold may not be ready to start decoding yet, so the picture is a useful tool.) -Go back and read the sentence again. |
If daily, reading begins in infancy, by the time a child is five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!
Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week and the child's hungry mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories. A kindergarten student who has not been read to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment. |
Tips for Older Readers
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Hours of Reading Books by Age 5 |
Foster your child's reading comprehension by doing one of the following activities:
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If you read 30 minutes daily...your chold has 900 hours by age 5.
If you read 30 minutes weekly...your child has 130 hours by age 5. If you read less than 30 minutes weekly...your child has 60 hours by age 5. |