Some research suggests that the more stories children hear before entering school, the more likely they will be successful in school because of the benefits to their vocabulary, comprehension, and ability to understand how stories work. When it comes to reading, teachers must make the best use of the limited amount of time children are in school. This is more likely to happen when teachers are highly trained in appropriate ways to determine children's needs and provide appropriate instruction, including when and how to introduce sounds and letters. Opportunities to talk and think about books and reading. Natural, spontaneous conversations with children at home and at school about what they are reading and how they are reading are critical to children's learning.
Writing is a wonderful way to learn how sounds and letters combine to form words.
Writing literally forces children to pay close attention to sounds in words and how they are represented. Recent research has demonstrated that young children who have the opportunity to write a lot, while allowed to use invented spelling, develop both the ability to hear sounds in words and the aptitude to become good readers. We all learn best by doing things ourselves. Encouraging children to figure out words independently helps them to become independent readers. What parents can do 1.