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.

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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.
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  • VOCABULARY
  • Knowing the names of things.
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  • PRINT MOTIVATION
  • Being interested in and enjoying books.
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  • PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
  • Being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.
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  • LETTER KNOWLEDGE
  • Knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters everywhere.
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  • PRINT AWARENESS
  • Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the words on a page.
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