| Think about how much reading you do in a day | | | | Play games with sounds |
| – emails, the internet, road signs, | | | | Choose a sound (or letter) and send your child on |
| advertisements, letters and business documents. | | | | a Treasure Hunt to find items around the house |
| Printable preschool worksheets can help your child | | | | or yard that start with that sound. Be prepared |
| learn how to read, and help them prepare for | | | | with some small ‘treasure' at the end of the |
| school. | | | | game to reward their efforts. ‘I spy with my |
| You need drawings | | | | little eye' can be played anywhere, and if you use |
| To help children relate to the letters of the | | | | the sound of the letter instead of the name, your |
| alphabet, they are often represented by pictures. | | | | three year old will easily be able to play along. |
| You'll find terms like ‘Annie Apple' used around | | | | Read as often as you can |
| the world to help preschoolers recognize letters. | | | | Join your local library so you have access to new |
| Printable worksheets offer a solution for those | | | | books without having to buy them. Children grow |
| parents whose drawing skills are not all that great, | | | | out of books almost as quickly as they outgrow |
| and often they are more affordable than books | | | | their shoes, and your library may have fun |
| from a store. | | | | children's reading programs that you can |
| Recognizing letters | | | | participate in too. Make reading fun, and your child |
| Your child needs to learn the sound that each | | | | will learn to love it. Reading to your child should |
| letter makes, and recognize the individual letters | | | | become a daily habit, and make sure that they |
| of the alphabet. By showing the letter, a picture, | | | | see you reading too – your child will follow |
| and the ‘name' such as Annie Apple, printable | | | | your example. |
| worksheets help your child link the letter to the | | | | Your child will eventually have to read worksheets |
| sound, and remember them. | | | | at school and the instructions for them, they will |
| Use pictures | | | | read writing on the board, school text books and |
| Because your three to four year old is still learning | | | | test papers for a good few years. Encouraging |
| to recognize letters, pictures can be used to help | | | | them to read, and read well, will improve their |
| them practice the sounds. You can use pictures | | | | comprehension and their test scores. Start your |
| of a ball, bird, bat, book and so on to help your | | | | child off on the road to success with a |
| child practice sounds. Printable worksheets with | | | | comprehensive set of printable preschool |
| lots of pictures starting with the same sound will | | | | worksheets to teach them all they need for |
| do this for you too. | | | | school and make learning fun. |