Finding the Right Reading Level for Your Child
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Literacy maybe one of th emost important skills that a child learns, but it can be hard to encourage your child to practice letters, especially if they would rather be playing out side or try out the latest video game. This can pose a challenge to parents, butt here are tricks and strategies you can employ to get your child reading. These strategies will also make it easy for you to monitor your child’s progress and keep the mengaged at their readinglevel.There are also plenty of educational resources for parents of children of all a gest hat can beuse din con junction with any learning strategy, such as books, literacy games and computer programmes.The following are some tips to help figure out what reading level your child is at by getting them interested in books.
Startin the Womb
The best way to get your child started on a literary pat his to begin when they are still in the womb. As anexpecting parent, read to your developing baby as often as possible. It doesn’t matter if you are reading the daily newspaper or your favourite book; your baby won’t understand what you are reading, but they will hear your voice and the rhythm of the words.This helps to set the stage for a love ofreading later on.When your child is born,continue reading to him or her. This will make books and reading a familiar aspect of their life and connect them to happy memories with their parents.
Play Reading Games
When your child is learning to read, play reading games with them. This can start very simply by focussing on recognising individual letters. Challenge your child to see if they can identify any letters in the words that they see on the bus, in the store, at home and any where that you go to get her. Make it fun! As your child becomes proficientat recognising letters, increase the challenge and get them to spell out simple words like “cat”, “food”, “toy” ,and so on.You can make a silly game out of sounding out words, stretching out the sounds in a funny but instructiona lway. Your child will have so much fun that they won’t even realise that theyare learning to spell and read at the same time!
Let Them Choose The Books
When your child is reading, let them choose the books they want to read. Don’t force them to read books they have no interest in, as this will become counter-productive and cause them to resent reading. Take an interestin the books that your child is reading and ask them about what happens in the story.This helps to improve their reading recall and introduces are flective critical aspect to their understanding of storylines.Don’t make it into a qui zthough as they could feel pressured and associate stress with reading. Be curious and ask questions at their level of comprehension, without “grading” the montheir responses.
Read With Your Child
Reading with your child is an intimate activity that strengthens the bond between parent and child and will cementaloveofreadingin your child for the restof their life.Set aside a time that you and your child can read together every day, such as right before bedtime. Again,let your child choose the book that you will read together so that they can develop an appreciation for reading early on.
