8 Hints for Helping Your Child With Pre-Reading Skills « Bob Books for Beginning Readers.
8 Hints for Helping Your Child With Pre-Reading Skills Your child’s first steps into reading depend on foundational, pre-reading skills. Simple skills, such as recognizing shapes (differentiating between a circle and a triangle is the first step in telling an O and an A apart), sorting (learning to categorize the shapes), patterns (helping kids identify letter patterns and later to decode words) and sequencing (understanding story flow) are important milestones in your child’s journey as an emerging reader. Here are a few games and activities you can do with your child to build his or her pre-reading skills.