Tip of the Month

Read aloud so preschoolers can:
  • Continue to associate reading with warm, pleasant feelings; learn about words and language; and expand listening skills.
  • Pay attention to the language of books and begin to notice how it differs from spoken language.
  • Listen to the sounds in words and notice how some are the same and some are different.
  • Build their vocabularies with words they understand and can use.
  • Gain background knowledge about a variety of topics.
  • Talk about the characters, settings, and plot and relate them to their own lives.
  • Learn that print is spoken words written down, letters in words are written in a certain order and written words are separated by spaces.

Source: Reading Is Fundamental
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