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Getting Your Child Ready to Read
"Every child deserves to realize his or her dreams. From the crib to the classroom, it is essential that children have parents, teachers and others in their lives who prepare them for success in school and life." -- Laura Bush
As a parent, you are your child's first and most influential teacher. Understanding and supporting your child's development and preparing the child for school will offer the greatest opportunity for success.
The key to successfully promoting your child's literacy acquisition and readiness for school is ensuring that your child has rich, high-quality opportunities for learning during the early years. This Web site offers guidance and strategies to help you provide your infant or young child with the skills and experiences needed for success in school and life.
How to Get Your Infant or Young Child Ready to Read
Learning to read is a complex process. Research indicates that children who are knowledgeable about language and literacy before they begin school will be more successful in reading. Your child can gain this knowledge through activities that are integrated across the developmental domains, that is, cognitive development, fine and gross motor development, social and emotional development and language development.
To prepare your child to learn to read in school, it is important to provide a home environment that offers high-quality language and literacy opportunities. This does not require formal teaching and academic experiences. Every interaction with your child is a learning experience, so it is important to create and maintain a home life that reinforces and promotes learning. Talking or playing and singing to your child, even before he or she can respond, establishes an environment supportive of language development. Sharing and talking about new experiences, explaining the many interesting things in the child's environment, and reading to the child as often as possible will provide the kind of language experiences needed for future success and enjoyment of reading.
Birth to 12 Months Old
From One to Three Years Old
From Three to Four Years Old
From Four to Five Years Old
Frequently Asked Questions About Early Language and Literacy Development
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