While reading a child may learn:

• To listen and attend
• To identify objects, label and learn vocabulary
• Produce alphabet and phonemic sounds for letters
• Improve memory and comprehension skills
• Strengthen rhyming, linking, and awareness skills

Research has proven literacy skills provide the foundation for attaining successful performance for future academic skills.s Findings support the children most at risk for reading difficulties in the primary grades are those who began school with less; verbal skill,  phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and familiarity with the basic purposes and mechanisms of reading. Read More