Tutors can help children in child care, Head Start and kindergarten explore literacy play and make language discoveries. Reading aloud is one of the most effective ways to encourage a child's emerging literacy and to support growing reading skills. Talking with children helps them understand the relationships between spoken and printed language. Writing focuses children's attention on print and helps them learn that letters represent sounds. Reading together is a scaffolding technique tutors can use to support children as they learn to read independently.
Tutors can help children learn to use decoding strategies to figure out new words.
Tutors can teach children how to make meaning in what they read. Tutors can help children experience writing as an ongoing process that evolves over time.