- Read to your child.
- Play rhyming games.
- Sing the alphabet song with them.
- Label things with their names from an early age.
- Go to the library even when they are at that loud voice only stage.
- Have non fiction books as well as fiction available .
- Tell stories.
- Have books all over your house.
- Teach the letter sounds by emphasizing the sounds in words they hear often from a young age.
- Provide fun and interesting books for them to read.
- Get a magazine subscription and read it together.
- Make play dough letters.
- Play the alphabet game on road trips.
- Read the mail together.
- Make a reading nook.
- Clap out syllables.
- Make letter crafts.
- Make reading play time .
- Notice letters in the environment.
- Learn about how books work and other concepts of print.
- Let them choose their own books at the library or bookstore.
- Leave them notes in their lunchboxes .
- Play with foam letters
in the bath. Use bath toys to make up and tell stories.
- Make your own books.
- Play eye spy with letters and letter sounds. ” I spy something that starts with the letter B. Buh buh book!”
- Give your children books as gifts.
- Make up silly songs together.
- Ask them to read the pictures to you before they can read the words.
- Play library.
- Read the book then see the movie for a family treat.
- Play with word families.
- Read books with no words and share storytelling duties.
- Let them see you reading for fun.
- Read nursery rhymes.
- Explore and trace tactile letters.
- Play listening games.
- Retell and have your children retell stories after reading them.
- Ask your child questions about elements of the story as you read with them. This works on comprehension.
- Read books at lunchtime .
- Take books with you when you travel.
- Build with letter blocks or make your own.
- Do word searches.
- Play sight word games.
- 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.
- Read comics and graphic novels
with them.
- Talk your your kids using regular words not “kiddie” words.
- Read them poetry.
- Get their bodies moving to learn letters.
- Read them their favorite book over and over and over even if it’s making you want to poke your eyes out.
- Make reading part of their bedtime routine from day one.
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50 Ways To Teach Your Child To Read- Allison McDonald
- by Allison McDo
Learning to read is not a crash course that kids take and are done with once they can read Dick and Jane without any help. Learning to read is developmental and starts when a newborn looks at you and hears you talking to them. Below are 50 pieces to the reading puzzle . 50 ways that you and your child can have fun knowing that they are working on early literacy development and learning to love books. This is not definitive checklist it’s a buffet of options to help support your child as they develop literacy skills and become independent readers. Find ideas that work for your family with your child and their current development. Click through the linked items for more details and how to do the activity with your child.
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Comment by mahesh jain on June 18, 2014 at 10:02am
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Thanx for reading and plez spread thw word
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Comment by Kasturi Sen Gupta on June 17, 2014 at 1:52pm
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Thanks.. Lovely article.
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@dr samar shadab very nice... i too have done a lot of them and try8ng a lot too to make my kid listen and as he will grow i will try him to read him more and more....
I have a wonderful app in my phone which recite poems and rhymes.... and kid love a lot...i have no games in my phone.
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Comment by Dr. Samar Shadab on June 10, 2014 at 11:12am
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out of these i have already done at-least 40! whenever i come across a good story book with good big pictures in it, i buy it and then he tells us the story by looking at the pics and then we read for him. we play with play-doh letters. he loves the letter song video, he picks up the books and tells us to read for him. his imaginiation has turned so wild and vivid that now at bedtime he tells us the stories, combining all the previously told stories and we enjoy them and sometimes record them as well!!
i have downloaded only educational letter and number games in my phone (i give him phone only in KID MODE in which he can access only the games and app which are allowed to him) and he plays them and have learned a lot from them...
now i know i am on the right track, thanks to this article!
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@risha... rightly said maam..
We all should encourage kids to read books....and for this we have to start it from our selves
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Very nice article.
My 3.4 years old daughter is very fond of books, may be because we ( I and my hubby) are book lovers. We have small library of fiction and non fiction books. Now she has got small cupboard full of books. Her favourite bedtime stories are The Three Billy goats (her father reads for her every night) and Cinderella n Goldilocks (I read for her before her afternoon nap). She also likes gadgets like other kids of this generation but I think we have this book reading culture in our home that is why she herself takes out books from her cupboard and says" maama let's read this book" :)
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Dear all parents ...
There are links in few points above. Whoch can take you to details of these points
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Very nice input shakshi maam
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Comment by Sakshi (Moderator) on June 9, 2014 at 7:30am
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Dear All
i know many parents ,who just buy books for kids as gifts and Lathaaji rightly said that is the best way to enhance vocab and knowledge.
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thanx lathaa maam,
reading books is very important in this age of ever growing technology where kids are more infatuated by new gadgets and are not into reading books.
your suggesting of gifting books as b'day present is also very appreciable...
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