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We know most of your preschoolers may not be reading on their own yet, but these are integral times for your children to develop a love for reading and help them to prepare to read! When you read to your children, you're helping to instill life-long skills into your children's developing minds.
So how does the summer reading program help? We encourage parents to read to their children. Anything: a picture book, a cereal box, the newspaper, etc.
When reading to your children, point out letters for your child to identify and colors throughout the pages. At the end of the stories, ask if they remember the name of the main character or what animal was in the book to work on comprehension and following the narration.
When logging books, you can log the minutes you've read to your child on their READsquared profile under your family account.
For more information on how to make reading fun and prepare your little minds to learn to read, check out our Every Child Ready to Read page to explore the five principles of prepping to read: play, write, sing, read, and talk.