Route to Reading: Be Your Child’s Tour Guide

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Route to Reading: Be Your Child’s Tour Guide

Route to Reading: Be Your Child’s Tour Guide

LISTEN: Notice speech sounds, letters, words, or ideas that seem hard.

LOOK: Watch for skills or tasks that seem difficult.

WAIT: Give time to self-correct, then provide a hint if needed.

ENCOURAGE: Praise and reassure as you talk about the book or activity

TALK: Talk with your child’s teacher about what you learned.

Suggested Citation

National Center on Improving Literacy (2019). Route to Reading: Be Your Child’s Tour Guide. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Special Education Programs, National Center on Improving Literacy. Retrieved from https://www.improvingliteracy.org.