Language and Experience
4/1/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Connect speech to the written word to help kids feel more comfortable reading and writing.
Connecting a kids speech to the written word can be a huge help in attaining literacy skills. Try using your child's words to create a book review you can read together.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Language and Experience
4/1/2025 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Connecting a kids speech to the written word can be a huge help in attaining literacy skills. Try using your child's words to create a book review you can read together.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- I like the colors.
- The colors?
What colors are you seeing?
- Connecting speech to written text is a powerful tool for childhood literacy.
After reading a book to your child, have them tell you their thoughts on it.
(upbeat music) Ask them things like, what did you see in the book?
What colors stood out to you?
Write down their exact words for each answer.
- Think of this page as the baseball field.
- The baseball field.
- [Educator] Turn your child's answers into a review of the book and let them give it a score out of 10.
- This book is a 10 out of 10.
- Fantastic.
You did a great job.
- Thanks for your review.
I'll read it before I get that book for my kids.
- [Narrator] Sponsored by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, helping build literary skills and encouraging parents and children to spend 20 minutes a day reading together.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.