Teaching your child to read may seem overwhelming. There’s so much to learn. Where do you even start? Before they can learn to read, they need to know 5 Pre-Reading or Reading Readiness Skills.
Whether you are a parent who is working with your child before they start school, homeschooler, classroom teacher, or tutor, you can use the resources and activities you find here at ABC’s of Literacy to help your child learn how to read. So, let’s get started!
From concepts of print to phonemic awareness, these pre-reading skills will help your child build the foundation for reading and learning success.
5 Reading Readiness Skills include:
- Motivation to Read
- Language Skills
- Concepts of Print
- Letter Knowledge
- Phonological Awareness
Resources & Activities:
If you are teaching letter recognition to your pre-readers, you will need to check to see what letters they have learned and which ones they still need to practice with this Letter Recognition Assessment. With the recording sheets and letter cards, this assessment is easy for you to use in your classroom or homeschool. The …
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If you have preschoolers and kindergarteners who are eager to learn, you may be wondering what Order to Teach Letter Recognition. When I was a child, I learned the letters of the alphabet from A to Z, but you no longer have to introduce them in order. Research says that there is a better way …
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When teaching letter recognition to your preschoolers and kindergarteners, it’s important to use letter recognition strategies for different learning styles. For every learning style, you need a variety of resources and activities, so your children can learn the letter names, shapes, and sounds. Many of these strategies use more than one of the different learning …
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From cat and bat to sun and bun, rhyming is a pre-reading skill that kids need to learn. Through this Connect Links Rhyming Words Activity, your kids will practice identifying pictures that rhyme and also work on developing their fine motor skills. Related Resource: Connect Links Preschool Activities Bundle Connect Links Rhyming Words Activity: Not …
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After using the Parts of a Book Poster, you can teach your pre-readers more about book and print awareness with these Concepts of Print Posters. Concepts of Print: One of the 5 Pre-Reading Skills Kids Need To Be Successful Readers is Concepts of Print. Kids who know the concepts of print will have …
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