1. Talk to your child from the day of birth. early language experience builds the foundation of reading success
2. Read aloud to your child
3. Young children learn best through direct experience with their environment. Allow exploration. Set aside a corner of the house just for this purpose.
4. Write down what your child says and read it bacck to him. Your child will soon discover that reading is a logical extention of speech
5. Encourage your child to keep a journal
6. Go for a walk in the park and collect some leaves of different shapes and sizes. Have your child arrange them according.
7. make cookies, cakes with your child. Let your child realise that there are steps that need to follow. read the instructions step by step and have your child follow the instruction steps. This provide practice in listening and follow oral directions.
8. Encourage your child to write a family newspaper
9. For the beginning reader, lebel objects around the house.
10. Encourage your child to interview family members and write their biographies.
11. Ask your child to count items (eg. eggs in the tray, apples in the fridge, cans on the shelf)
12. Read along with your child aloud to provide a model for expression and fluency
13. Write some messages that required written answers.
14. provide a book shelf for his collection of books
15. Take your child to nearby library as often as you can
16. Conduct an oral scanvanger hunt. ask your child to find all the objects in the kitchen tha begins with a specific sound; example "f" - finsh, fan, fork, fridge,
17. Ask your child to locate items in the cupboard by saying it is "next to", "in front of", "beside", "under", "above", etc :-
18. Have your child write words that are intersting or meaningful on an index card. File in a special word file box. Your child can use these words to write stories.
19. Layt different shaped crackers in a row to create a pattern. have your child try to reprodduce trhe pattern.
20. Do not expect your young child to spend long period of time at homework. Change the activities often to make it interesting for him.
21. Let your child measure ingredients when you cook or bake.
22. Ask more "why" questions, instead of questions that required only a "yes / No" answer.
23. Prepare a shopping list wit your child. read it together while shopping
24. Have your child make a scrapbook with a beginning letter sound for every page.
25. establish a message cnetre on a bulletin board. leave messages for your child.
