Before children can learn to read, they need build print knowledge skills. They need to know that letters and words have meaning, are different from pictures and have rules that tell us how to read them. Here are some ways you can build your child’s print knowledge with a book filled with fun-looking print. 

Your child may understand what is happening in a book, but what about why it’s happening?  Talking about the reasons things happen in a story helps your child make important cause-and-effect connections, which deepens their story understanding. Here are some tips to help! 

An effective way to deepen your child’s understanding of a story is to encourage them to make judgments and form opinions about the events that take place. Here are some tips to help your child evaluate a story with the fun book, The most Magnificent Thing. 

Learning about print doesn’t come naturally to children. They need our support to understand what print is for and how it works – a key early literacy skill called print knowledge. Read on for some tips to build your child’s print knowledge with the fun children’s book, This Book Is on Fire!

Use the Hanen strategy, “Shoot for the SSTaRS” to help your child learn the kinds of higher-level words that prepare them for school success.

Helping a child understand less commonly used words will have a big impact on their reading and writing abilities later on. In this Book Nook, we share some helpful strategies to introduce rare words to children and to ensure they really understand them. 

When we support children to act out a story, we encourage them to think more deeply about the events and characters in the book, which deepens their understanding. Here are a few tips for adding pretend to your book sharing with children.

Bear might be scared of a lot of things, but is it possible he’s braver than he thought? Come along for the fun as we share strategies for helping children learn about story structure with this charming book.

Studies show that children who start school with strong sound awareness skills tend to become better readers and writers. Learn more about what sound awareness is and use a fun Hanen strategy to help children learn this skill while you’re looking at print, both in books and at other times throughout the day.