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tiny punctuation fix: shame to have one in the top-rated answer about literacy! (also moved to SE list markup to bring character count up)

Lots of things you can do.

  1. Don't make it a chore. She loves reading so foster that, don't kill it.
  2. Keep reading to her. As you do, trace your finger along the words so she can begin to relate specific spoken words to their written counterpart.
  3. Start teaching what sounds individual letters make.
  4. Point out letters that go together to make sounds. Start with small common sounds. e.g. in English -at is a very common compound. Hat, cat, bat, etc.
  5. Pick a word that you know is going to be common in the book you are about to read and point it out to them and make that "their" word for that sitting. Every time you get to that word, they are the one who gets to say it out loud instead of you.
  6. Just to reiterate: Keep reading to her.
Kevin
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