Six Pre-Reading Skills your child can start learning from birth! What you do helps your child get ready to read.
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.
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Being able to describe things and events and tell stories.
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Knowing the names of things.
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Being interested in and enjoying books.
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Being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.
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Knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters everywhere.
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Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the words on a page.
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