Tips for Parents to Help Their Child Succeed in Reading

• Read aloud to your child every night for 10 minutes.
• Obtain a library card for your child and make frequent trips to the library to check-out books.
• Read for fun in front of your child. Talk about the books, articles and letters you read.
• Follow a written recipe and cook with your child.
• Eat dinner with your child and discuss your child’s activities from the day.
• Point to signs, license plates and other written materials while out driving.             
• Turn on the “closed-captioning” on your television.
• Reward your child with books, magazine subscriptions, etc.
• Show your child how to surf the Internet.
• Teach your child to put down uninteresting books