Teaching Reading

We don’t often think of it, but the season of caroling is wonderful for beginning readers.  Singing the familiar songs while looking at the words is a great way to reinforce early reading skills.  The words are often even broken up into syllables, since we sing one syllable for each note in general.  What a [...]

Got a young child or beginning reader at your house?  Take advantage of a pervasive source of reading material: environmental print!  Environmental print is the writing that we encounter every day in the course of living.  For many children, it is the first experience with words they recognize.  It’s easier to read most environmental print [...]