Early literacy is very important for children as young as two and three years old. Teaching this factor to your child starts with you. You should know that this is what your child knows, about the subjects, before they can actually read and write.
Research shows that children get ready to read years before they start school. You can help your two and three-year old learn the special skills now so they can become good readers later.
Why parents are very important in helping their children get ready to read:
- You definitely know your children best.
- You know what is easiest for them so you can help your children learn reading skills.
- Your child loves doing things with you and your child can learn by experience.
Take every opportunity you have to read with your children, tell stories and talk about stories, sing songs and talk about the nursery rhymes that they can learn to say. You know your own child better than anyone else, and you know when your child is in a good mood, this is when they learn the most.
With research we find, there are six skills that your child needs to learn in order to read well. Activities you do to support each of these pre-reading skills will change as your child grows. These are the six pre-reading skills your child can start learning from the day they are born!
- Narrative Skills: being able to describe things they discover in life, and to tell these descriptions in story form.
- Print Motivation: enjoying books and keeping their interest in reading new books.
- Vocabulary: Your child needs to know the names of things around them, and explain their feelings toward these things.
- Print Awareness: show your child how to hold a book, let them notice the print, let them follow the words on each page.
- Letter Knowledge: knowing all the different letters and recognizing them everywhere.
- Phonological Awareness: being able to play and hear with the smaller word sounds.
What can you do to help? What you do helps your child learn to read. Find books or even ebooks that are fantastic, amazingly your child will be captivated by them and it will be great fun seeing their reaction when you read together. With all of the new technology available you can read to your child from your laptop, or even from your iPhone as you travel, not only from books anymore!
Print Motivation; have book sharing time, and let your child see you read. When your child enjoys books they will want to learn to read. Last but not least visit your public library often.
Phonological Awareness; make up your own silly, nonsense rhymes. Sing songs that have different notes for each syllable in a word, the child will learn the different sounds to the words. Play games with words, “What sounds like ‘fun’?” or “what starts with the same sound as ‘car’?” When you make this fun time, the child will join in and learn to sound out each word and will begin to read.
Vocabulary; discuss with your child the things that are going on around you. Let your child reveal their feelings and express this with words. As your child talks to you add more words to the conversation, he or she will learn the new words and what they mean. Increase the vocabulary words your child reads, the more their knowledge grows so will their reading skills.
Print Awareness; read every day, everywhere you go, signs, lists, menus, labels. Don’t forget to point to the words as you read them. Let your child take the book and read to you. Watch to see if your child holds the book right side up, you want them to learn the correct way. All of this will help your child grow familiar with all the words around them.
Letter Knowledge; talk about what is the same and different in words. Show your child the different shapes and letters. Teach your child to write his or her name, concentrate on the first letter, sound it out. Sing the alphabet and point to the letters, this makes learning fun.
Narrative Skills; ask your child to tell you something that happened to them that very day. Tell stories, read books together. Stories help children to learn the steps in an event order such as first, next and last. Reread books to your child, let them tell you what is happening and have them read the words as they point to them. When your child is able to tell a story it helps them to understand what they have read.
How you read to your child makes a difference in how ready they are to learn to read. Let them tell you what is going on in the pictures. Don’t forget the praise and encouragement, make reading fun. Your child will advance in learning with each book, plus they discover all the new adventures. Learning is so easy for the children, reading is the core for all subjects. You can give your child a head start at the young ages of two and three. They will be so comfortable with reading and understanding, what they have read, that they will tell you all about it!
Linda McRae is a internet marketer, who has a business at home, and has written many articles about the loves of her life, while working from home. This one being about reading to toddlers, you can find some very helpful teaching tools at Read To Me Books
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