A simple guide to how your child learns to read, with clear steps to help you support literacy at every stage.
Reading Ritual
A routine is when you repeat an activity regularly without putting much thought into it. A ritual is when you infuse a repeated activity with purpose and meaning. Developing a reading ritual is the first step to teaching your child other literacy skills.
Inspiring Your Child
Look for inspirational moments or characters in the stories you read with together. Point out life-changing events in the movies you watch. Tell your child inspirational stories about characters or people you admire. You and your child are the main characters in your stories. Recall the big moments in your own lives.
All About Me
About me preschool activities help children learn to talk about themselves while building language, confidence, and early literacy skills. Try simple, playful ways to get your child communicating.
Teaching Your Child
You have the leading role in the stories your child sees unfolding each day. Play to your audience. Notice what makes them laugh or cry. Pay attention to the things they dread and the things they run towards. Then give them more of the things that light them up.
Making Art
We all begin as creative beings. And most of us strive to include creativity in our lives. We connect with art, music, photography, theater, and design because it makes us feel a certain way. Helping your child express themselves through creative pursuits gives them a voice and emotional outlet.
Learning Tools
Teaching your child to use tools properly will ensure that they’re safe and comfortable when they are doing activities that require them. Once they enter school, they will be expected to use these tools independently and on a daily basis.
The Story Behind LitSteps: Building a Strong Literacy Foundation for Young Children
The story behind LitSteps—how 20 years of teaching and a love of children’s books became a simple, step-by-step way to help preschoolers learn to read.
How to Teach Letters and Sounds to Preschoolers (Ages 3–5)
Simple, playful ways to teach letters to your preschooler while building early reading, phonics, and confidence.
Learning to Sort
Your child has been learning to identify items by color, shape, and size. Then they learned how to match objects that were similar. Now it’s time to put that knowledge to the test. Children can now practice their abilities by sorting objects in different ways using their attributes.
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