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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading to your child an hour or every half-hour every night is the best method.

Sooner or later your kid will read through osmosis, but first ensure your child has "sight words" down pat.  A lot of issues can develop if the kid isn't well-versed in sight words first.  YouTube has a lot of great videos where the child can read along and they're free.

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My kids are much older, but this is what we did and continued to do for many years. To clarify we didn’t use you tube, we read to our kids every night. We read at a minimum two books - one was always a very basic book (like a Bob book would be in grades K/1) and had our kids chime in when they could. The other book was always at a higher reading level with a more interesting plot and we’d ask questions at the end of a chapter (we’d read a chapter a night, maybe something like a Roald Dahl book). Kids learn to read eventually, but comprehension skills are just as important. Unless the teacher has raised a flag, I’d keep a low key approach at this age - as you said, you don’t want to turn DC off from reading. [/quote]

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