Every Child Ready To Read

Research shows that there are six pre-reading skills that children must know before they can learn to read.  When you read to your children, you help develop each of these skills.

What YOU do helps your child get Ready to Read!

Narrative Skills: being able to describe things and events, and tell stories.

Print Motivation: Is a child's interest in and enjoyment of books.

Vocabulary: Knowing the name of things.

Print Awareness: Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book, and knowing how to follow the words on a page.

Letter Knowledge: Knowing letters are different from each other, their names 

and sounds, and recognizing them everywhere.

Phonological Awareness: Being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.

 Did you know.....

• Children get ready to read long before they start school.
• Children who are read to often have a larger vocabulary and better language skills when they enter Kindergarten.
• Children who enter Kindergarten knowing letter names and sounds are more likely to achieve at higher reading levels.
• Children who like to be read to are more likely to become good readers.

You can give your children a lifelong advantage if you start now to develop a love for books and reading.  Read to your children often, and come to your public library for books and programs that can help get children ready to read.