Part 2 - Activities For Developing Reading Skills In Your Preschooler

What follows are ideas for language-building activities or early reading activities that parents, teachers and caregivers can do with preschool children to help build the skills preschoolers needs to become readers.

Most public libraries offer free use of books, magazines, videos, computers, and other services. Other things that you might need for these activities are not expensive.

For each set of activities, we give an age span that suggests when children should try them. From one
activity to the next, we continue to talk about children at different stages: infants (birth to 1 year),
toddlers (1 to 3 years), preschoolers (ages 3 and 4), and kindergartner/early first-graders (ages 5 and 6).

Remember that a child doesn't always learn the same things at the same rate. And that a child doesn't  suddenly stop doing one thing and start doing another just because they are a little older.

So use the ages as guides as your child learns and grows. Don’t consider them to be hard and fast rules.

You’ll see that your role in the activities will change, too. Just as you hold up your baby when he’s
learning to walk, you will help him a lot when he’s taking his first language steps.

As he grows, you will gradually let go, and he will take more and more language steps on his own. That is why in most of the activities we say, “The first activities . . . work well with younger children. As your child grows
older, the later activities let him do more.”

As a parent, you can help your child want to learn in a way no one else can. That desire to learn is a
key to your child’s later success.

Enjoyment is important! So, if you and your child don’t enjoy one
activity, move on to another. You can always return to any activity later on.
 

Please choose from the following selection:

Baby Talk

Babies love hearing your voice. When you answer your child’s sounds with sounds of your own, she learns that what she “says” has meaning and is important to you.
 

Books and Babies

Sharing books is a way to have fun with your baby and to start him on the road to becoming a reader.

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Related Articles:

Part 1: Birth Through Preschool Reading Skills

• Teaching Reading To Your Preschooler - Page 1
• Teaching Reading To Your Preschooler -Page 2
• Becoming A Reader
• Talking And Listening
• Reading Together - Page 1
• Reading Together - Page 2
• Learning About Print And Books
• How To Choose Books For Your Preschooler
• Preschooler Booklist/Reading List
• Early Efforts To Write
• Reading In Another Language

Part 2: Birth Through Preschool: Activities For Developing Reading Skills in Your Preschooler

• Baby Talk
• Books And Babies

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