How to Help Your Child Learn to Read
“How to Help Your Child Learn to Read” by K. Karl, is a short article found at associatedcontent.com which gives parents a few of the basics as they begin to discover ways to help their child become a good reader.
In this article, Karl points out some fundamental kindergarten reading skills which include, but are not limited to: sight word recognition, recognizing colors, identifying rhyming words, and recognizing capital and lower case letters.
We have expanded on this list and have included (below) more pre-reading skills for parents to discover which are important foundations for the beginning reader.
• Beginning print awareness
• Using attentive listening skills while listening to a story
• Identifying and recognizing rhyming sounds
• Follow directions and pay attention (short periods at a time) to tasks given by adults
• Cut with scissors
• Trace the basic shapes: square, circle, triangle, rectangle
• Manage their own bathroom needs
• Begin following rules
• Identify the beginning sound in some words
• Identify at least 10 letters of the alphabet
• Recognize common sight words such as “stop”, “go”
• Understand their actions have consequences
• Show a basic understanding of the times of day (morning, afternoon, night)
• Sharing with others
• Can button and zip
• Can count to ten
Keep in mind children change quickly and each child develops at a different pace – so, be patient – if your child is unable to do something today, it may “click” the next week.
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