Parents are a child's best teacher. What you do helps your child get ready to read. The following are 6 skills that help to promote early literacy.

• Print Motivation - A child's interest in and enjoyment of books.
• Vocabulary - Knowing the names of things.
• Print Awareness - Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book, and how we follow the written words on a page.
• Letter Knowledge - Learning to name letters and to recognize them everywhere.
• Narrative Skills - The ability to describe things and events and to tell stories.
• Phonological Awareness - The ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.