http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/ECRR/ecrrinpractice/storytimeapplications/researchbasedprograms/prereaderstresearch.pdf

Say simple poems and sing simple songs with your child. Check this web site for some songs and finger plays:

http://www.preschooleducation.com/song.shtml

Your child will love these songs and activities. When you see how it works, make up your own. You can incorporate rhymes, music and songs daily into your routine and your child will enjoy it and so will you! Go to the library and ask for rhyming books. There are lots of them and they are so much fun. Dr. Seuss books are fantastic. Also, see if they have Lynley Dodd’s Hairy McLairy books. They were favorites of my own children.

Your child won’t understand rhyming well enough at first to make up his own rhymes, but he will gradually catch on and soon he will be able to rhyme words himself. Remember, rhymes don’t have to make sense. They can be just sounds, so when he says “dog-mog…does that rhyme, Mom?” the answer is Yes, it does rhyme! Go for it. You will be helping your child learn to read while having a lot of fun!

With Children Learning Reading you can train your child how to separate your lives appears and separate words in to phonemes, an important issue as soon as your kid is merely learning to spell.

The studying program from Children Learning Reading program makes it simple for children to see quickly and precisely, from simple words to phrases till they learn to read stories.

Higgily Piggily Bumblebee,

Who can make a rhyme for me?

(While the students chant they slap their knees to keep a rhythm going. Then I give a word like….”cat”. I select a student to give me a word that rhymes with cat. They might say, “bat”. Then we slap our knees as we say the two words …..”Cat/ bat, cat/ bat, cat/bat”…….Then we start over again. Kids LOVE this game and it teaches them to rhyme.