March 2, 1998

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Tips for Reading With Your Child

Have your child open a book to any page in the middle of the book and have them read
that page. Whenever she comes to a word she doesnt know how to pronounce, she
should lift her finger up. If she lifts all of her fingers up before she finishes reading the
page, then the book is to hard for her. Another way to help your child read is to have
them sound out the word. This can help them memorize irregular words. You should
also use suffixes, prefixes, and root words. An example of this would be like: if your child
knows how to pronounce the word day, help him to say new words like yesterday or
daily. You can also make reading fun by speaking in a funny voice to impersonate
animals or unusual characters in the story.
www.greatschools.org/students/homework-help/21-read-with-your-child.gs

Why is reading with your child important?

Reading aloud helps your child obtain early language skills, leading to language
development and building word-sound awareness; which is a key to your childs reading
success. Helping your child to read also builds motivation, curiosity, and memory. Once
your child starts school difficulty to read will most likely lead to school failures, so it is best
to start reading to them at a young age.
http://www.reachoutandread.org/why-we-work/importance-of-reading-aloud/

Overview of Read Across America

Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls
for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, which is the birthday
of Dr. Seuss. The National Education Association (NEA) sponsors this program with
support from more than 50 national nonprofit and association partners. A small reading
task force at NEA created this idea in May 1997. The purpose of this organization and
event is to motivate children to read because it is an important factor in student
achievement and it creates lifelong successful readers.
http://www.nea.org/grants/read-across-background.html