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Read the book WITH your child. You read the “regular” text, and he/she reads the big, red words, sort of like reading the different parts in a play. You can read the book on your computer or laptop, or print it out on your printer. |
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Help your child sound out the words as needed. |
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Read a book many times. This helps develop the eye muscles and left-to-right reading patterns that are necessary for reading. |
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Fluency is achieved when a child can see a word and instantly recognize it. A child may need to see a word thirty or forty times before it becomes automatic, and some children may need to see a word well over a hundred times before it becomes automatic. |
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Do the handwriting worksheets and activity sheets that accompany each book. When children write what they learn, they learn it better. This also increases the number of "exposures" to each word = speeds up achieving fluency. |
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Don’t worry about upper-case letters or capitalizing proper nouns and sentences. Uppercase letters are taught in Alphabetti Series #4. |
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Don’t rush it. Body builders don’t train in a day, neither does a child. |
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And most of all, make it fun. A love of reading will last a lifetime. |










