Publisher's Synopsis
Jump Start Your Child's Early Reading Skills While Having a Ball!
This is not another book for beginning readers.LEARNING TO READ IS A BALL isthe starting point for parents who want to prepare their preschoolers to be lifelong successful, and passionate readers.
This innovative resource is packed with reading strategies and introduces the latest evidence-based early literacy research as a concise and easy-to-understand parent guide. Then, the ball is in your court! Apply the techniques by reading the fun-loving picture book with your early reader.
LEARNING TO READ IS A BALL includes:
- A rhyming 28-page picture book about balls
- Specific techniques to develop oral language using different reading styles
- Strategies to use synonyms and antonyms to build vocabulary
- Various approaches to encourage storytelling
- Dynamic tips to play with rhymes and alliteration to build the understanding that words are made up of different sounds
- Thoughtful tactics to highlight letters and words to stimulate print awareness
Develop these foundational reading skills in your child, and you'll take pride knowing you helped prepare your little one for formal reading instruction going into pre-school or kindergarten.
