Creating a Pro Reading Environment

To give your child the best possible chance and encouragement, it is important that you create the right home teaching environment.

• Introduce books and read to your child from the very earliest age.
• Give durable baby books with first pictures and words and look at them together.
• Make sure your child sees you reading.
• Make visits to the library – many libraries will have story reading sessions for young children and this can be a real adventure.
• Songs and Rhyme – nursery rhymes are a great way to encourage language development – sing the alphabet song.
• Rent or buy educational DVDs and watch them together. Make watching an educational DVD together for thirty minutes part of your morning ritual.
• If you don’t have time to always watch a DVD with your child don’t, feel guilty for having to do other tasks whilst you child watches an educational or nursery rhymes DVD which encourages your child to interact.
• The best possible teaching will come from you. Five minutes with alphabet flash cards will reinforce letter recognition from watching educational DVDs and a child loves being the centre of attention and having one to one time with their parents.