You can help your child succeed at reading long before they are ever ready to sound out words on their own.
Here are some important practices you probably already do when you read a book or otherwise interact with your child:
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When you practice these things with your child, you are teaching them six important skills:
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Print Awareness: Noticing print everywhere |
Phonological Awareness: Knowing sounds |
Narrative Skills: Knowing how stories work |
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Letter Knowledge: Naming letters and their sounds |
Vocabulary: Knowing lots of words |
Print Motivation: Enjoying books |
• Go to Mother Goose on the Loose (storytime for babies!)
• Sign up for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten and win a free book and other prizes!
• Sign up for Imagination Library and receive a free book in the mail every month!
• Watch Lakeshore Public Media's Building Blocks for a great look at why early literacy and learning - just what we practice with our programs here at LCPL - are so important for babies and children!
LCPL staff have selected these books because kids love them and they help build important pre-reading skills. Check them out today!
Want more hand-picked kids' books? You can request a surprise bag of kids' books for curbside pickup!
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Title: We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt by Goldie Hawk Skills: • Phonological Awareness • Print Awareness • Narrative Skills Practices: • Singing • Reading Extend the book with jack-o-lantern windsock! |
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Title: See You Later, Alligator by Sally Hopgood Skills: • Phonological Awareness • Vocabulary • Print Awareness Practices: • Reading • Talking Extend the book with a paper plate tortoise craft! |
