Here are a few suggestions for helping your child along the road to reading.

1. Sing the Alphabet Song.

2. Point to letters in words and name them. This is especially helpful while waiting in a
restaurant or in line at the grocery store.

3. Read a story to your child. Ask your child simple questions about the story. For example, "Who
was in the story?" "What happened in the story?"

4. When you write your son or daughter's name, spell the letters out loud so they can hear the names
of the letters when you write them. Please use a capital letter for the first letters in both the
first and last names. Please use lower case letters for the remainder of the letters in the names.
Thank you.

5. Tell your child a letter from the alphabet and have him/her tell you a word that begins with that
letter.

6. Help your child learn the words for the colors - yellow, orange, red, green, blue, purple, brown, black, white.