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EVERY CHILD READY TO READ! Six Pre-Reading Skills your child can start learning from birth! What you do helps your child get ready to read. Click here to learn more...
			According to research, there are six pre-reading skills that children must learn in order to learn to read. Activities you do to support each of these skills will change as your child grows. Every Child Ready to Read @ your library is a project of the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children, divisions of the American Library Association. www.pla.org www.ala.org/alsc Every Child Ready To Read @ your library www.pla.org/ earlyliteracy.htm
Narrative Skills Being able to describe things and events and tell stories. Click for more...	Vocabulary Knowing the names of things. Click for more...	Print Motivation Being interested in and enjoying books. Click for more...


Phonological Awareness Being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words. Click for more...	Letter Knowledge Knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters everywhere. Click for more...	Print Awareness Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the words on a page. Click for more...