Read to Learn Tips: January 9, 2012
Compiled by Sally C. Fuller, Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation
Talking to your child - from birth - gives them a world of words and ideas, for free!
Is your home literacy-friendly? These suggestions are from the Home Literacy Environment Checklist, which can be found at www.getreadytoread.org. This checklist is also translated into Spanish.
- Your child should have more than one rhyme book.
- Your child should have at least 10 picture books.
- Your child plays beginning reading and alphabet games on a computer, for example, "Reader Rabbit" or "Bailey's Book House".
- You or another adult in your house should read a picture book with your child at least four times a week.
- You or another adult in your house should teach new words to your child nearly every day.
- You or another adult in your house should have a detailed and informative conversation with your child nearly every day, for example "How do you think ice cream is made?"
