Literacy Tips for Parents

Reading Tips for Parents

• A love of reading begins at home.
• Your child’s success at reading starts before he/she starts school.
• Good oral language skills help develop good reading skills.
• Talk to your child and let your child talk to you.
• Good readers surround themselves with books.
• Always have a book…. in the car……at the dentist……in the restaurant ……. on the Luas.
• Repeated reading helps develop fluency.
• Encourage re-reading of books, of chapters, of pages, of paragraphs.
• Parents are powerful in their influence.
• Let your children see YOU reading and enjoying books, magazines and newspaper.
• Rewards carry messages, give a book as a reward now and then.