Read with your child each day.

Make a reading place for your child.

• Keep your child's books in a special, easy to reach place.
• Put a small rug or pillow in this special place.
• Read with your child in this special place.
• Talk to your child about how to take care of books.

Give your child different kinds of books to read.

• Get a library card for your family and visit the library often.
• Visit the children's section of the library together and pick out books to take home.

Save some time each day to read with your child.

• Read in a special place. Make sure it is quiet.
• Hold your child close to you when you read.
• Help your child to understand that reading is important.
• Children learn by doing things over and over. Our child may want to read the same book over and over again.

Let your child join in the reading.

• Before you start reading, let your child look at the pictures. Ask your child to guess what the book is about.
• Show your child how to read a book (left to right, front to back)
• Let your child point to the pictures in the book you are reading.
• After reading a book, ask your child to tell the story again.

 

Books to look for at the library:

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

My Hands by Aliki

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

Sound Box Series by Jane Belk Moncure