‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’ –Dr. Seuss
I always come across parents who ask me what is the right time to start reading?
The child is reading ever since their birth. Ever since they are able to see things around them. They could be pictures, people or just objects. They are reading, sight-seeing and hence sight reading!
Reading is a skill and should be able to create interest for the same. Reading becomes valuable when done with interest. When beginning reading, children should be given the opportunity to develop concepts about the process. It is suggested that books with predictable text, for example books with rhythm and rhyme, repeated patterns, logical sequences, relevant illustrations, and story structures, should be used to aid the remembering of the text.
The teacher can, depending on students' experiences, read the text, pausing before a word that can be determined by the picture and the text, to encourage children's participation and their reading, with the teacher. The children should be encouraged to ask questions and make comments. The teacher may point briefly to words to model direction during reading, and model how to confirm answers or predictions from the text.
When?
Start right from the cradle! Reading aloud can help calm a fussing baby or entertain a quiet one, and it can do wonders for you, too.
Continue reading aloud even after your child learns to read. Young readers enjoy listening to many books that they can't yet master on their own.
What?
Books are good, but don't forget signs, menus, mail, billboards, cereal boxes, recipes, calendars, newspapers, magazines, labels and dozens of other everyday items. A print rich environment is easy to offer.
Play word games (like rhyming, describing, beginning and ending sounds, opposites) while in the car, while cleaning, while eating.
Write to read. Leave notes, letters!
Hope this helps the parents to raise our little ones into readers!!
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