Some Ways To Help Your Child Learn Reading
Some Ways To Help Your Child Learn
Reading
• Set a good example by reading yourself in your child’s presence
• Visit the public library to browse and choose books
• Set limitations on television watching and search out better programs…discuss the programs
• Encouraging the writing and addressing of letters, greeting cards, thank-you notes, writing grocery
lists
• Word games can help increase your child’s vocabulary and improve spelling…junior versions of
Scrabble, Password, and other such games
• Listen to your child read…or have him/her read to a younger child
• If at any age your child seems “turned off” by reading, don’t make an issue of it…casually leave
“irresistible” books around –books on whatever your child’s current interests are
Math
• Give your child practical experience using math at home…encourage help when you bake. Mention
things like quarts, pints, gallons, inches, yards, feet, pounds, ounces, miles, etc. (use metrics
also)
• Shopping experiences such as:
child reads newspaper ads for item prices
compares containers as to best buy
child purchases item and figures change
fold under total on grocery tape and let child re-add it
manage allowance…saving toward goal
• Encourage your child to read the time from a non digital clock…include reading the minute, a.m.
and p.m.
• Buy or make flashcards for any basic facts that are proving difficult…USE THEM ON A REGULAR
BASIS
Other
• Encourage curiosity about geography, maps, and weather
• Encourage use of dictionary, atlas, globe, encyclopedia, road maps
• Encourage your child to be a “collector”. Provide a place for collections…box, shelf, drawer…an
inexpensive picture frame or box lid can show off leaves, flowers, stamps or even insects.
See to it that your child has enough sleep and a nutritious breakfast each day.
Does your child “dislike” a certain subject? Find out why. Your child may need extra help. Seek
the reason behind the dislike, then enlist the teacher’s help so that you can work together.
REMEMBER! Listen with interest, encourage and ask questions, be generous with
PRAISE, ENTHUSIASM and SYMPATHY!