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2. Vary the tone of your voice, sing nursery rhymes, bounce your knee, and make funny faces. Use other special effects to stimulate your baby's interests.
3. Allow your child to touch and hold sturdy cardboard books.
4. When reading to your baby, be brief but read as often as you can.
5. When reading to your child, follow the words with your finger so that your child learns to follow from left to right.
6. In early reading, the rhyme is a way for children to enjoy the repetition of the sound of language.
Older Children
1. Encourage reading for the fun of it as a free-time activity, and keep books in your home.
2. Talk and listen to your children. Language is like a four-legged stool: speaking, listening, reading, and writing are its parts, and each supports the other.
3. Read with your children every chance you get-even if it's just part of a newspaper article at the breakfast table, and turn off the TV when you do it.
4. Set the example; be sure your children see you reading and understand that you read for enjoyment and to get needed information.
5. Monitor your children's schoolwork and applaud their efforts.
The National Reading Panel produces objective reports about what works and what doesn’t in reading. Check online at www.NationalReadingPanel.org, or call 1-800-USA-LEARN.
Note: Parents for whom English is a second language are encouraged to read to their children in their first language.
For more information about literacy, go to First Book's website, (www.firstbook.org), www.starfall.com or to www.getreadytoread.org.
Click here to learn more about what RIPIN is doing about literacy in Rhode Island.
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