Highlights High Five – September 2019

Dear Readers

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Trifles for everyone!

Anderson, age 3,

from Arizona puts

his food skills on

display (May 2019).

Arabelle,

age 4, from

New Jersey

shakes colorful

maracas

inspired by a

story in March

2019.

Learning to Read

Your High Five!

My first day of kindergarten was a disappointment. I thought I would walk out of

school at 3:00 p.m. knowing how to read. I had assumed the schedule would be:

Day 1: Learn to read. Day 2: Read books.

Children don’t become readers overnight (much to my dismay). Instead, parents

and teachers support preliteracy skills that help children become readers at the right

time. Preliteracy skills include holding a book right-side up and knowing that print

goes left to right and from the top to the bottom of the page. It’s recognizing and

saying rhyming words and understanding that a sentence is made up of words. That’s

not all, but it’s all part of literacy readiness. As you read this magazine with your

child—or listen to your older child read it on his or her own—you can be confident

knowing that you are helping your child become a great reader.

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