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Preliminary Steps to Teach a Preschooler to Read
Talk to and listen to your preschooler. When you do any kind of activity with your child, talk about it. Talk about eating, playing and friends or family.
Take your preschooler to new places and expose her to new experiences. Talk about what you see and what is new.
Teach your preschooler new words. Say the names of things out loud as you encounter them. Label household items so the preschooler gets a visual image as you talk about it.
Explain new things and how they work in basic, easy to understand language.
Read many books to your preschooler. Select his favorite books and reread them a lot. You want this to become predictable so that your child will recognize words and repeat them.
Ask your child what will happen next in a story and offer praise when she guesses correctly. Relate a story of your child's own life.
Perform Letter Techniques to Teach Reading
Show your child his name in print. Then write it, repeating each letter as you jot it down. Display the name many places where your child will see it. Persuade your child to write his name.
Teach your preschooler to learn the alphabet song.
Bring to attention words and letters in everyday settings to your child. Point to signs, mail and packages, then request your child to begin saying these common things on her own.
Use games to teach reading. Suggest finding words in magazines or using magnetic letters, available at eBeanstalk.com, to spell out words on a refrigerator (see Resources below).