Developing Reading Skills

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to talk to you about understanding the nature of reading. Developing reading skills isn't it important to read to your child oh yes, but there is a whole lot of other things, strategies and techniques that are extremely important too. You will be looking at developing reading skills that you can teach reading everywhere. Reading isn't just taught in a text book or just by reading to your child. It surrounds you, it's everywhere. We're going to be looking at reading, it's fun and it's enjoyable. If it's fun for you it will be fun for your child. We will be looking at per reading is time to be together that is an important concept in reading, that is the joy of doing something together. Knowing how to model good reading habits is probably one of the most important points when enhancing and motivating a child to read. Your habits and how you read to your child and teaching reading activities that you use very little reading yes, reading activities without ever sitting down with a text book and teaching a child to read. It works wonders, next seeing a word from a child's perspective sometimes in life we forget they are just learning how to read. Things that come up so easily for us this is a way to have patience and to be playful and to enjoy teaching a child to read. A balance approach there are many theories on how to teach a child to read. I'll be touching on a number of those theories so you can pick and choose to see what works best for you. Also opportunities are everywhere. Every time you open your front door it's another wonderful journey to be reading with your child because developing reading skills happens every single day."