Early literacy expert Bernadette Pilar Zermeño says that parents can watch for and support these pre-reading skills: interest in learning about and using new words, lots of talking and expressing increasingly complex ideas through oral language, rhyming and playing with word sounds, letter awareness, and understanding how books work.
This video is part of the Reading Rockets special series, Reading SOS, where parents ask the experts their questions about reading and how to support their kids at home.