These tips are great to help your student to be ready to read when they are at home.
- Talk to your infant and toddler to help them learn to speak and understand the meaning of words.
- Read to your baby every day starting at 6 months of age.
- Use songs, sounds, gestures, and words that rhyme to help your baby learn about language.
- Point out the printed words in your home and other places you take your child such as the grocery store.
- Take children’s books and writing materials with you whenever you leave the home.
- Create a quiet, special place in your home for your child to read, write, and draw.
- Help your child see that reading is important. Set a good example.
- Limit the amount and type of television you and your child watch.
- Reach out to libraries to help find age-appropriate books to use at home.