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Reading With Picture Clues
Use pictures to build children's reading confidence.
- Print out the page and read the story together, running your fingers along the lines as you read them. When you get to a picture, point to it and pause, giving children a few moments to chime in. You might underline the word that spells out the image.
- When you’re finished, say something like, “You did a great job reading that story,” or “Thank you for helping me read that story.”
- Next time you read a book together, help kids use pictures to understand what’s happening, like they just did. Younger kids can use this strategy to “read” a whole story (narrating the story based on the pictures alone). Older readers can use pictures as clues to help them read a word they don’t know (for instance, if they’re struggling with the end of a word beginning with “el,” and there’s a picture of an elephant on the page, they get a hint that the word is “elephant”)!
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My Favorite Part
Help little ones share special parts of stories in words and pictures.
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Read with Me
Track your reading progress with some printable bookmarks!
![Julia, Wes, and Elmo crowd around a table of books](https://sesameworkshop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GeneralLiteracy-Video-BuzzingAboutBooks-667x500.jpg)
Buzzing About Books
As children grow, they can engage with books (and caring grown-ups!) in special ways.
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The Perfect Book: An Act Along Story
Make story time more engaging by encouraging children to act out what they hear!
![Tamir and Kayla read together.](https://sesameworkshop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GeneralLiteracy-Video-StarReader-667x500.jpg)
A Star Reader
There are many steps to reading, and all are important to becoming a great reader. It’s a process!
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Grow, Grow, Grow!
A story about Elmo and his daddy using a book to grow a flower.
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One More Time
There are lots of different ways to share the same story, again and again!