10,000 Readers Challenge
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Tips for Creating Strong Readers
1. Invite your child to read with you every day.
2. When reading a book where the print is large, point word by word as you read. This will help your child learn that reading goes from left to right and understand that the word said is the word seen.
3. Read your child's favorite book to them over and over.
4. Read many stories with rhyming words and repeated lines. Invite your child to join in on these parts.
5. Discuss new words. For example. "This big house is called a palace. Who do you think lives in a palace?"
6. Stop and ask about the pictures and about what is happening in the story.
7. Read from a variety of children's books, including fairy tales, song books, poems and information books.
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