Reading

to your child
 Early reading experiences
improve language learning and
enhance future reading success
for children.

Programs which encourage

reading at home with young
children have been shown to
enhance early reading success.

“Tracking” the words with your

finger as you read will help
children build letter and word
recognition.
 Reading one story to your child
per day will improve their literacy
outcomes.

Print Knowledge is the ability to

recognise how books work –
turning the pages, holding the
book up the right way, knowing
there is a front cover, middle
and back cover.

Decoding describes the actual

reading of the written text, which
we can do for our young
children when we read to them
so they can focus solely on
comprehending the story.