HELP YOUR CHILD TO GET READY FOR SCHOOL

Worried that your child will be left behind at school?
There are a few tips to help your child to get ready for school!
It is simple, and takes you a little time on it: 

TALKING & READING TO CHILDREN

Importance to talk and read to children: 

1. Children included as conversational parter are:

• More prepared for the type of language interaction used in school.
• More proficient users of language in own community

2. An important predictor of children's later reading ability.

3. An important implications for later language and reading development 

How?

Talking to Children

1. Tell your children about past events.

2. Elaborate them.

3. Associate those events with other     events.

4. Provide scaffolding* by increasingly involving children in collaborative conversations.

Reading to Children

1. Establish a book-reading routine.

        Ask question; point out & label pictures; provide feedback;     make categorical distinctions. 

2. Interactive story reading.

        Stop and ask open-ended questions.

        Expand on children's responses.

        Suggest alternative possibilities.

        Make the question progressively more challenging as children's understanding increased.

        Use scaffolding strategies* (see articles of scaffolding strategies afterwards) 

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An experiment of 1 month time was made by Grover Whitehurst and colleague in 1988.

Parents of 2- and 3-year-old children were trained to used interactive story reading, another group of parents just simply read to their children. 

The first group children were 8.5 months more advanced on verbal expression than the second group. 

Therefore, the way we read to young children do help them prepare for life in a literate society.

Start talking and reading to children 

AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE