Help Your Children Learn to Read

Start reading to your children when they are babies. Read to them every day.

Collect children's books. You can buy them at used book stores or garage sales. When your children start to read by themselves, listen to them read out loud. Don't worry about their mistakes.

Go to the library with your children. Let them choose some of the books.

Continue to read to your children every day. Try short newspaper articles, comics, and sports scores. Have fun reading together! 

Background Information

Did your parents read to you when you were child? Do you read to your children? Talk about how you think children learn to read and why parents should read to them.

Questions

1. When should you start reading to children?

2. Where can you get children's books?

3. What does collect mean?

4. What should you do when children start to read by themselves?

5. What's another word for worry?

6. Where should you take your children for books?

7. How often should you read to a child?

8. Why do you think reading newspaper articles is important?

9. What is a comic?

10. How do you think reading sports scores will help a child learn to read?