Learning To Read

Learning to read does not happen all at once! The best time to learn is usually at the pre-school level. Little and often is the best approach!

Learning to read does not happen all at once! The best time to learn is usually at the pre-school level. Little and often is the best approach!

9 activities that pre-readers and beginning readers like to do:

• Look at books

• Be read to

• Hold books and pretend to read them

• Learn about words by looking at picture books

• Play with magnetic letters and blocks with letters on them

• Learn words from rhymes, songs, signs and labels

• Learn how text works – left to right in English

• Draw pictures to illustrate a story

• “Write”her own story using a few letters and scribbles