Helping Your Child Learn To Read

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Helping Your Child

 Learn To

 Read

Helping Your Child Learn to Read is one in a series of books on different education topics intended to help you make the most of your child's natural curiosity. Teaching and learning are not mysteries that can only happen in school. They also happen when parents and children do simple things together.

For instance, you and your child can:

sort the socks on laundry day-sorting is a major function in math and science;

cook a meal together-cooking involves not only math and science but good health as well;

tell and read each other stories - storytelling is the basis for reading and writing (and a story about the past is also history); or

play a game of hopscotch together. Playing physical games will help your child learn to count and start on a road to lifelong fitness.
By doing things together, you will show that learning is fun and important. You will be encouraging your child to study, learn, and stay in school.

This book is a way for you to help meet these goals. It will give you a short rundown on facts,

but the biggest part of the book is made up of simple, fun activities for you and your child to do together.

Your child may even beg you to do them. At the end of the book is a list of resources, so you can continue the fun.

Let's get started. We invite you to find an activity in this book and try it.

Table Of Contents
Foreword

Introduction

The Basics
Start Young and Stay with It
Advertise the Joy of Reading!
Remember When You Were Very Young
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Important Things To Know
It's Part of Life
One More Time
Talking about Stories
The More the Merrier
How Do I Use This Book?
Read Along
Look for Books
Books and Babies
R and R: Repetition and Rhyme
Poetry in Motion
Read to Me
Family Reading Time
Story Talk
Write and Talk, Too
Tot Talk
What's in a Name?
World of Words
Book Notes
Family Stories
Now Hear This
P.S. I Love You
Easy as Pie
Write On
TV
Make a Book
Make Your Own Dictionary
Parents and the Schools

A Postscript about Older Children

Resources

Acknowledgments

What Can We Do To Help Our Children Learn?

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