Help your child get ready to read in school:
- LOVE BOOKS (Print motivation): being interested in and enjoying books.
 Show your child that reading together is fun. see Favorites for Toddlers
- USE BOOKS (Print awareness): noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and how to follow words on a page.
For fun, hold a book upside-down to your children can notice that something is "wrong." see books with Word Awareness.
- NEW WORDS (Vocabulary): knowing the names of things.
Read books about things that interests your children. Ask librarians about finding easy information books. see True Books
- SEE LETTERS (Letter knowledge): knowing that letters look different from each other and have different names and sounds.
Read A B C books to your child. see ABC Books or Letter Sounds
- MAKE SOUNDS (Phonological awareness): being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.
Singing songs is a good way to help your child hear the different parts of a word. see Rhymes & Mother Goose books.
- TELL a STORY (Narrative skills): the ability to describe things and events and tell stories.
Tell your child stories about you and your family. see Senior Family & Friends
ELSIE: Early Literacy Storytime Ideas Exchange
Find books to match each of the six early literacy skills.
Parent Guide to Literacy
Pre-Talkers: birth to 2 years (pdf)
Talkers: 2 to 3 years (pdf)
Pre-Readers: 4 to 5 years (pdf)
Public Library Association and Association for Library Service to Children.
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