Route to Reading: Help Your Child Fuel Up
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Route to Reading: Help Your Child Fuel Up
Helping your child with speech sounds supports early reading success.
- Sing or listen to nursery rhymes, like Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, or Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.
- Say a sentence aloud and ask your child to count or tap the number of words in the sentence.
- Talk about how some words can be broken down into smaller words and put two words together to make another word (strawberry).
- Try playing with smaller sounds in words, like zip-per or s-u-n.
Suggested Citation
National Center on Improving Literacy (2019). Route to Reading: Help Your Child Fuel Up. 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.
Abstract
Helping your child with speech sounds supports early reading success.
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This toolkit helps parents and families take part in literacy experiences at home to develop children’s reading and language skills.
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The research reported here is funded by awards to the National Center on Improving Literacy from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education Programs (Award #: S283D160003). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of OESE, OSEP, or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright © 2024 National Center on Improving Literacy. https://www.improvingliteracy.org
