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Teaching reading is essential for our youth not only to live, but survive in a world that is becoming more open to cultural and diverse forms of communication. Coaching parents to become productive teachers in their home is a growing, successful trend. Parents want to help their young child learn how to read, but few are aware of the appropriate concepts, strategies and techniques involved. Author Dr. Caron Goode’s article provides parents with some starting points to encourage young child to begin reading.

Coaching Parents to Encourage Young Readers

There are four steps children take to becoming readers. In the first step, they are known as pre-readers. Pre-readers like to look at books and behave like a reader. In this stage, your child begins to understand how text works and can retell a story from memory. Next, she becomes an emerging reader. At this point, she is ready to be taught how to read. She begins to match written words to spoken ones, and can identify simple words in text. From here, she develops into an early reader. As an early reader, she is more confident of her ability and capacity to learn. She recognizes more words and understands their relationship to language sounds. The last phase is that of a fluent reader. The fluent reader can read a variety of materials and relate to the information. Once your child reaches this stage, her reading foundation is in place.

Six Ways to Encourage Young Readers

1) Start With Language. Language sounds are the basis for reading skills. Children learn these sounds by listening to you converse. Every time you talk with your child you are strengthening this understanding. You can improve her sound recognition in a number of ways including:

· Telling stories
· Asking questions
· Singing songs
· Playing word games
· Pointing to words as you read them

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