My very first!

This is your child’s first step toward reading. This phase might be more difficult for children who are less interested in reading. However, generating interest and selecting the appropriate book for them are key steps in this process. Once we have piqued their interest, it is simple to encourage kids to read and become more familiar with reading. In this level of guided reading, we will show them illustrations from a storybook and ask them to narrate the story in their own words. This would allow children to grasp the storyline when we read it to them. This would generate confidence in them and make them believe they invented the story. Full-colour books with short, relatively simple sentences would be appropriate for this level. Remember “A child’s first book will never be their last.”