Research confirm the importance of reading and that reading transforms a child’s life!
The following suggestions are offered as tips to help your child read.
 Read to your child daily—
make it a pleasurable
experience
 Stress good listening.
 Hold the book upright and
turn pages slowly from front
to back.
 Encourage your child to look
left to right at the sentences
and pictures. Use your fingers
to help track eye movement
left to right.
 Occasionally, point out new
words but do not focus on
them too long.
 Have a good location where
children can keep books and
browse if they wish.
 Use words such as: front,
cover, open, turn page, back.
 Place a green dot on the first
page to help your child look
for the dot to start reading.
 Teach your child to look at the left page first and model this each time you read.