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Reading Tips for Parents:
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A love of reading begins at home.
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Your child’s success at reading starts before he/she starts school.
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Good oral language skills help develop good reading skills.
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Talk to your child and let your child talk to you.
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Good readers surround themselves with books.
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Always have a book…in the car…at the dentist…in the restaurant…on the luas
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Repeated reading helps develop fluency.
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Encourage re-reading of books, of chapters, of pages, of paragraphs.
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Parents are powerful in their influence.
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Let your children see YOU reading and enjoying books, magazines, the newspaper.
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Rewards carry messages, give a book as a reward now and then.
