Route to Reading: Help Your Child Fuel Up

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Route to Reading: Help Your Child Fuel Up

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.