The Conversation – Keisha McIntosh Allen and Kindel Turner Nash
Establishing routines that involve reading can help, such as reading them books – whether they are printed on paper or accessed through digital devices – and letting them watching others read. For example, my 1-year-old pretends that she can read because she often sees her 6-year-old brother reading.
Kids typically learn to read books through a series of phases, which often overlap. Initially, they “read” pictures in their storybooks, rather than the words, often in books others have read to them before. Then, they pretend to read words they’ve memorized.