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Ideas for how parents and caregivers can develop the Six Pre-Reading Skills in their children
- Letter Awareness is learning that letters are different from each other and learning that each letter has a name and specific sounds that go along with it.
- Babies understand things through their senses.
- Point out things that are alike and different.
- Use ABC books.
- Let your child see his/her name written.
- Play with magnet letters.
- Narrative Skills is being able to describe things and being able to understand and tell stories.
- Tell stories to your child.
- Listen as your child tries to talk. Be patient.
- Read a story several times and let the child tell you what happens next.
- Let your child retell a story with props or puppets.
- Let your child draw a picture and tell you what is happening in the picture.
- Phonological Awareness is the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.
- Sing songs.
- Play rhyming word games, using silly words too.
- Say tongue twisters.
- Print Awareness is noticing print, knowing how to handle a book, and knowing how to follow the words on a page.
- Read books to your child.
- Hold the book upside-down and see if the child knows that it has to be turned.
- Let them see you turn the pages. Let them try too!
- Point to the words as you read them, so the child learns that you are reading the text, not the pictures.
- Point to signs and words that are around you in everyday life and read them aloud to your child.
- Let your child make his/her own book.
- Print Motivation is being interested in and enjoying books.
- Let your child see that reading is fun.
- Make book sharing a special time for you and your child. Short periods of time are ok.
- Keep books in the toy box or on an accessible shelf for your child to look at whenever they wish.
- Vocabulary is knowing the names of things.
- Use many words.
- Use a wide variety of words.
- Explain unfamiliar words.
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