Bringing Every Child to Literacy

  An Early Intervention Program

Expose your child to print in the natural course of the day, point out signs, labels and other environmental print.”

·          Allow your child to see you reading books, as well as magazines and newspapers.

·           Share letters from family members with your child so they begin to understand written communication.

·           Visit the Post Office and allow children to take an active part.

·           Allow your child to make discoveries with magnetic letters on a cookie sheet.

·           Provide appropriate challenges for your preschoolers as very few children learn to read without some struggle.  (Example: jigsaw puzzles that get progressively more difficult.)

·           Read to your child daily.  There is no substitute for reading and telling  stories

·           Limit television time.  As television leads so easily to passive acceptance, questions cannot be answered by the TV set and so they are not asked.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PARENTS 

Title                    Author               Publisher

Babies Need Books     Dorothy Butler  Atheneum

A Parent’s Guide to Children’s Reading   Nancy Larrick  Doubleday

The Read-Aloud Handbook    Jim Trelease  Viking/Penguin

How Children Learn     John Holt  Dell

Learning To Read     Margaret Meek  Heinemann

Family Storybook Reading    Danny Taylor  Heinemann

Learning Through Play     Jean Marzollo  Harper & Row

How to Play With Your Child (And When Not To)  B. & S. Sutton-Smith Dutton