Tips for getting your child ready to read

There are six pre-reading skills that children need to be ready to read:

Print Motivation: being interested in and enjoying books
Vocabulary: knowing the names of things
Print Awareness: noticing print, knowing how to handle a bookand knowing how to follow the words on a page
Letter Knowledge: knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters everywhere
Phonological Awareness: being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words
Narrative Skills: being able to describe things and events and tell stories

The six pre-reading skills are part of the Every Child Ready to Read program. To learn more about this program visit http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/ECRR/ECRRHomePage.htm.