How To Get Your Child Reading Ready

How can I get my child "reading-ready"?

Reading readiness is something children tend to develop naturally if you read with your child and books are a part of your life. It doesn't take a child very long to be reading-ready if you've been reading to them since they were an infant, teaching them to realize that you read from left to right and that you start at the beginning and you go to the end. Buy letter toys for your child. You can buy almost any toy out there with letters on it. You've got blocks with letters on it, you've got those little letters that you have in the bathtub that float around and stick to the walls of the tub. You've got all kinds of puzzles that have letters and all kinds of books that have A is for apple and for aardvark. If you incorporate all these things into the daily activities that you do with your child, by the time she or he is 2, 3, and 4 he or she will know the letters, the sounds and how books work, so getting the child reading-ready won't be a problem.