HELP YOUR CHILD TO READ
Grace Bai

• Talk with infants and young children frequently in short, simple sentences. Tell stories, sing songs, recite nursery rhymes or poems, and describe the world around them to expose them to words. Name things, make connections. Encourage your child to talk with you.
• Limit the amount and kind of television that your children watch. Find out educational channel or videos from library that you can watch and discuss with your children.
• Visit the public library often to help your child obtain their own library cards and pick out their own books.
• If you want to buy a gift for your child, buy an age-appropriate book. You will find good books from the school's book-ordre catalog. Your child needs her/his own books to read and to be read again and again.
• Set up a special place for reading and writing in your home. A well-lit reading corner filled with lots of good books can became a child's favorite place. Use a corner of one room; set up a short shelf with good books on bottom shelf and different kinds of pager, nontoxic crayons, washable markers, paints and brushes on the second shelf (make sure the shelf is short enough for your child to reach those tools). Prepare a small rug in front of the shelf with some soft pillows on top and a child-sized table and chair near by.
• Your are your child's role model ! Demonstrate your own love of reading by spending quite time in which your child observes you reading to yourself.