TIPS ON GROOMING A READER

TIPS ON GROOMING A READER

1.     Read to your child daily.

2.     Read in front of your child.

3.     Explore environmental sounds with your child.

4.     Make silly faces with silly sounds.

5.     Play with words and alliterations with your child.

6.     Explore rhymes and rhyming words with your child.

7.     Be informed and involved in the phonics system used at your child’s school.

8.     Encourage your child to read often, even babies.

9.     Start with attractive picture books.

All these and more can be done while carrying out our day to day activities i.e cooking, bathing, shopping, e.t.c.

It is important to take them out to read i.e at parks, while you are shopping in the supermarket/mall (NOT MARKET!), children’s library (there is one at Wuse Zone 4 library), and eateries. Encourage them to read out load to your friends & family, their friends, classmates, e.t.c.

Laurel’s Bay Preschool, Abuja.