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Reading with 4-5 year olds (Pre-reader)

Quick Tips

• Run your finger along under the words as you read. This helps children to understand that you are reading the words, not the pictures.
  
  This will also help them understand that in English we read from left to right and from top to bottom of a page

• Try holding the book upside down. See if your child notices that it is upside down. If not point it out.
  
  Children need to know how to hold a book, which is the cover, and which is the back of the book.

• When you come to a word that your child does not know, you should use that word and explain it in a way that your child will understand.
  
  This is one way to help children learn more words.

• You can play rhyming games while you are walking or are waiting on line or just about anywhere.
  
  This is a fun way of helping children understand that words are made up of parts, which helps them in sounding out words.

Books to Read with your Pre-Reader

• The Little Red Hen by Paul Caldone

• Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

• The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments by Arnold Lobel

• Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel

• Thomas' Snowsuit by Robert Munsch

• Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni

• Berenstein Bears by Stan & Jan Berenstein

Rhyme Time

• Rhyming Hunt
  Point out an object, such as a mat or a chair
  Ask your child to find another object whose name rhymes with it

Example: CHAIR- HAIR, MAT-CAT

• Try this Nursery Rhyme

Higglety, pigglety, pop! The dog has eaten the mop; The pig's in a hurry, The cat's in a flurry, Higglety, pigglety, pop!

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