Read to your child as often as you can. Discuss the story and ask a question or two about what you ve read to encourage good listening habits. Have your child read to you. Select a book, choose any page and have the child read aloud. If the child makes fewer than five errors, the book is at his or her reading level.
Success is important.
Talk and sing with your children. Listen to their questions and stories. Have them put their ideas into words. Make a story come alive by using a finger or sock puppet and have the puppet retell the story. Start reading or telling a story and stop before it is finished.