Success in school starts with reading. When children become good readers in the early grades, they are more likely to become better learners throughout their school years and beyond.
Learning to read is HARD WORK for children. Fortunately, research is now available that suggests how to give each child a good start in reading. Becoming a reader involves the development of important skills, including learning to:
* Use language in conversation
* Listen and respond to stories read
aloud
* Recognize and name the letters of the
alphabet
* Listen to the sounds of spoken
language
* Connect sounds to letters to figure
out the "code" of reading
* Read often so that recognizing words
becomes easy and automatic
* Learn and use new words
* Understand what is read