Reading Strategy

Every step a child takes toward learning to read leads to another. Bit by bit, the child builds the knowledge that is necessary for being a reader. Over their first 6 years, most children

• Talk and listen.
• Listen to stories read aloud.
• Pretend to read.
• Learn how to handle books.
• Learn about print and how it works.
• Identify letters by name and shape.
• Identify separate sounds in spoken language.
• Write with scribbles and drawing.
• Connect single letters with the sounds they make.
• Connect what they already know to what they hear read.
• Predict what comes next in stories and poems.
• Connect combinations of letters with sounds.
• Recognize simple words in print.
• Sum up what a story is about.
• Write individual letters of the alphabet.
• Write words.
• Write simple sentences.
• Read simple books.
• Write to communicate.

With this reading strategy, children can take more than one of these steps at the same time. This list of steps, though, gives you a general idea of how your child will progress toward reading. More details: Typical Language Accomplishments for Children, Birth to Age 6 >>

• Reading Strategy
• Talking and Listening
• Reading Together
• Learn about Books
• Early Efforts To Write
• Reading in Another Language

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