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Read with Me: Helping Parents Help Children

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No surprises here: a recent survey underscores the importance of reading to and chatting with children in their first years as a vital building block to speech and literacy.

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#1 by nitajo posted ago

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There are many pre-walking stages that a child must progress through before she will be able to take those first few steps. Likewise, there are many pre-reading experiences, not unlike those mentioned above, that can bring a child to the point where they are ready to read. These experiences must touch on oral language development, phonemic awareness, understanding print, interacting with books, and so on. As educators, we need to help our parents, grandparents, or other guardians provide these types of rich activities for their children. -- Bill Driedger