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passage 1 help your child become a reader encouraging early reading skills can build a path to a lifelong love of reading and can help your child get a head start in school. while reading to your child is still the most important thing you can do to build reading skills， there are many techniques that can help. make reading fun. play games with your child as you read. many traditional childrens games can be adapted to encourage reading skills. while reading or during play, tell your child， i spy with my little eye，something that begins with the letter b. help the child find something on the page or in the room that begins with that letter. for example, i see a barn. this can also be used to teach beginning letter sounds. i spy with my little eye.something that begins with the sounds. help the child find a word that begins with thessound. in this variation on the popular game。 instruct the child that，simon says， point to something that starts with the letter n. the child call then find an object in the room or a body part， such as the nose，that starts with the letter presented. this can also be used to teach beginning sounds. make a game out of rhymingwords by making up silly words to rhyme with the childs name or favorite toys. this sets the stage for rhyming real words by showing the child the similarities of sounds. as the child masters making up the words， begin rhyming real words to one another. | 
