Helping Your Child Learn To Read

Uses activities, familiar to both you and your child, to teach reading (30 pages)

The book focuses primarily on what you can do to help children up to 10 years of age. During these years you can lay the foundation for your child to become a lifelong reader. In the first section, you will find some basic information about reading to your child; this is followed by suggestions that guide you to

• read with your child and make this all-important time together enjoyable
• stimulate your child’s interest in reading and language
• learn about your child’s school reading programs and find ways to help

Contents

• The Basics
  • Start Young and Stay with It
  • Advertise the Joy of Reading!
  • Remember When You Were Very Young
  • Home Is Where the Heart Is
• Important Things To Know
  • It’s Part of Life
  • One More Time
  • Talking about Stories
  • The More the Merrier
  • How Do I Use This Book?
• Read Along
  • Look for Books
  • Books and Babies
  • R and R: Repetition and Rhyme
  • Poetry in Motion
  • Read to Me
  • Family Reading Time
  • Story Talk
• Write and Talk, Too
  • Tot Talk
  • What’s in a Name?
  • World of Words
  • Book Nooks
  • Family Stories
  • Now Hear This
  • P.S. I Love You
  • Easy as Pie
  • Write On
  • TV
  • Make a Book
  • Make Your Own Dictionary