Model fluent reading.

Teach early literacy concepts (e.g., conventions of print, phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, letters of the alphabet, letter-sound relationships, sight words).

Teach reading strategies that make use of meaning, structural, and visual cues.

• Model fluent reading

• read books and other materials aloud to children, with appropriate expression, intonation, phrasing

• provide opportunities for children to listen to fluent reading (e.g., library story hours, books-on-tape sets, books on video, etc.)

• read books and other materials aloud to children, with appropriate expression, intonation, phrasing

• provide opportunities for children to listen to fluent reading (e.g.,library story reading, books-on-tape sets, peer-to-peer reading, etc.)