Reading with Your Child at Different Ages & Stages
Success at School Starts at Home
Two key areas in which parents can support their children's acquisition of reading skills are oral language and pre-literacy knowledge. Children learn to read after they acquire a foundation of spoken language - a foundation that is built in the home. When parents read with their children often and engage them in quality conversations about books and other subjects, they are providing the language exposure children need for reading development and helping to prevent reading difficulties.
Children who enter school with strong oral language skills and awareness of print concepts (e.g., the right way to hold a book, the direction in which to read, the connections between words on a page and spoken words) have a much easier time becoming readers than those who do not. Learn more about how to support your child's language and reading development, using books, at different ages and stages of development:
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