Literacy Matters: The Ultimate teach Your Child To REad Activity Book-Prereading (by Autumn McKay)

About the book:

The author of this book has excellent credentials as both an educator and a parent. She has also carefully developed the framework, rationale and activities that are included in this title.

Prereading is described as an essential early skill. A few of the concepts introduced to children in this book include recognizing upper and lower case letters, understanding concepts of rhyme and more. The author strongly advises that adults read the parts of the book that precede the activities section in order to be most effective.

All of the activities are described and there are illustrations for all of them in the appendix. In addition to focusing on these, the author recommends reading to children as a key activity.

To me, this title looks like it is directed to those who are doing home schooling. Those who are leaving the teaching of reading to the school might want to use some of these activities as adjuncts.

I confess that I left much of my kids’ learning of literacy skills to the school. Certainly we read a lot at home but I did not do too many workbook like activities. I am very glad to have raised readers. That said, it is up to each adult to make their own decisions on this topic.

However it is approached reading is a fundamental skill and one that, in my opinion, should be taught with a sense of joy and excitement. If your child would have fun with this book, go for it…or go for it if you feel it is helpful.

Many thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this title. All opinions are my own.

This title was published in 2022.