When you take your child to the library, check out a book for you. Then set a good example by reading yourself. Ask your child to get one of his books and join you while you read a book, magazine, or newspaper. Don't worry if you feel uncomfortable with your own reading ability.
Just doing it counts. When your child sees that reading is important to you, he may decide it is important to him, too.
How Does a Book Work?
Children are fascinated by how a book looks and feels. They see how easily you work with it, and they want to make it work, too. When your toddler watches you handle books, she begins to learn that a book is for reading, not tearing or tossing around. Before she is 3, she may even pick one up and pretend to read, an important sign that she is beginning to know what a book is for. As your child becomes a preschooler, she is learning that:
a book has a front cover
a book has a beginning and an end
a book has pages
a page has a top and a bottom
you turn pages one at a time to follow the story
you read a story from left to right
As you read with your child, begin to remind him or her about these things. Read the title on the cover. Talk about the picture there. Point out where the story starts, and later where it ends. Let your child help turn the page. When you start a new page, point to where the words of the story continue and keep following them with your finger. These things take time to learn. But when your child learns them, she has solved some of reading's mysteries.
Academics April 21st, 2008
When you take your child to the library, check out a book for you. Then set a good example by reading yourself. Ask your child to get one of his books and join you while you read a book, magazine, or newspaper. Don't worry if you feel uncomfortable with your own reading ability.
Just doing it counts. When your child sees that reading is important to you, he may decide it is important to him, too.
How Does a Book Work?
Children are fascinated by how a book looks and feels. They see how easily you work with it, and they want to make it work, too. When your toddler watches you handle books, she begins to learn that a book is for reading, not tearing or tossing around. Before she is 3, she may even pick one up and pretend to read, an important sign that she is beginning to know what a book is for. As your child becomes a preschooler, she is learning that:
a book has a front cover
a book has a beginning and an end
a book has pages
a page has a top and a bottom
you turn pages one at a time to follow the story
you read a story from left to right
As you read with your child, begin to remind him or her about these things. Read the title on the cover. Talk about the picture there. Point out where the story starts, and later where it ends. Let your child help turn the page. When you start a new page, point to where the words of the story continue and keep following them with your finger. These things take time to learn. But when your child learns them, she has solved some of reading's mysteries.
When you take your child to the library, check out a book for you. Then set a good example by reading yourself. Ask your child to get one of his books and join you while you read a book, magazine, or newspaper. Don't worry if you feel uncomfortable with your own reading ability.
Just doing it counts. When your child sees that reading is important to you, he may decide it is important to him, too.
How Does a Book Work?
Children are fascinated by how a book looks and feels. They see how easily you work with it, and they want to make it work, too. When your toddler watches you handle books, she begins to learn that a book is for reading, not tearing or tossing around. Before she is 3, she may even pick one up and pretend to read, an important sign that she is beginning to know what a book is for. As your child becomes a preschooler, she is learning that:
a book has a front cover
a book has a beginning and an end
a book has pages
a page has a top and a bottom
you turn pages one at a time to follow the story
you read a story from left to right
As you read with your child, begin to remind him or her about these things. Read the title on the cover. Talk about the picture there. Point out where the story starts, and later where it ends. Let your child help turn the page. When you start a new page, point to where the words of the story continue and keep following them with your finger. These things take time to learn. But when your child learns them, she has solved some of reading's mysteries.
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