 It's never too soon to start your child on the path to reading. A simple talk with your child will give him or her vocabulary that will be useful when going to school. As you point and name objects, she will begin to understand the meaning of words, and will eventually begin to incorporate those words into her vocabulary.
The U.S. Department of Education recommends beginning to read to your baby when she is six months old. According to the research, the hearing of words is enhancing the child’s comprehension. Reading to your baby is one of the best ways to help her learn."
According to the Department of Education parent should search for groups that:
1. Help you find age-appropriate books to use at home with your child;
2. Offer creative ways of dealing with books and reading techniques;
3. Provide year-round children's reading and educational activities.
The love for reading is increasing when the words materialize in the process of life of a child. For example, after reading Eric Carle's Ten Little Rubber Ducks to your toddler, you can learn all about real ducks, make ocean snacks, or go on a family outing and feed the ducks at a nearby pond.
There are also special recommendations that the Department of Education give, that are as follows:
- Using sounds, songs, gestures, and words that rhyme to help your baby learn about language and its many uses.
- Point out the printed words when going with your child anywhere, to the shop, to the library, or just a colored poster.
- Spending as much time listening to your child as you do talking to her.
- Regardless on where and when you go, take all children’s reading materials with you. This gives your child fun activities to entertain and occupy her while traveling and running errands.
- Giving the opportunity for a child to work quietly somewhere in the house, i.e. creating a working place.
- Keeping books and other reading materials where your child can easily reach them. Creating a special bookshelf will make her sure that reading and books are very important.
- Reading books, newspapers and magazines yourself, so that your child can see that reading is important.
- Making the limit of watching TV during the day.
The best thing for you do to ensure that your child will grow up reading well and loving to read is to read to her every day. The process of reading will make you closer; it will increase the trust of the child to you, and enhance the educative effect. The Department of Education suggests that, when you're reading, you discuss new words. For example you may say: big house is called palace. Who do you think lives in a palace?" you can show pictures to the child and ask him about events that take part in the story.
There are additional strategies for enhancing literacy:
- When reading a book with large print, point at each word as you read it.
- If you have a favorite book try to read it over and over again.
- Read stories with rhyming words and lines that repeat, and have your child join in.
The number and types of child reading must vary, choose different styles and read them to you child continually.
If you want to crate a strong reader from your child you must be ready to devote a lot of efforts and create various reading techniques by your own.
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