Top Tips for Teaching Your Child to Read
Reading will give your child a range of development skills, such as learning new words, knowing how to spell and pronounce them, and boosting their creativity skills. It’s a great way to let your child see the many benefits of reading on a daily basis, but it can feel like a challenge getting your child to enjoy reading in the first place.
Here are some tips from Hopes and Dreams nursery to help your child learn to read and continue to appreciate it.
Read all of the stories aloud
Act like the big important reader in the room and talk aloud, reading every word in the book. Not only does this help your child get used to the sounds of different words and how grammar comes into play, but it also keeps your child’s attention on you. At toddler age, it can be difficult to help your child learn to sit quietly for too long and appreciate reading, but continued conversations will help them with this.
Pick out books that involve their favourite characters
Oftentimes your child is going to appreciate being surrounded by their favourite characters from TV shows and films, cartoons and so on. This is the best way to get your child motivated to read and is often why you will find many books out there based on the adventures of your favourite characters. Pick them up and see what your child takes a liking to.
Play lots of word games
Word games are a good way to get your child involved in the enjoyment of reading. Clapping and singing songs about how different words go together will keep your child enticed, and you can use other games like I Spy or the Word Association game. You can then work from here to show your child how they can use the words they’ve learnt when it comes to reading.
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