Form a partnership with your beginning reader by setting aside fifteen or twenty minutes a day to read with rather than to your child. (That’s what makes you a partner rather than story reader.)
If you can’t spare the time, an older brother or sister or a babysitter might be willing.
Here are a couple of techniques that reading partners can try together:
• Reading Echo. First you read a line, then your child reads the line back to you. This technique encourages children to read with expression and without hesitation.
• Buddy System. Yo read a Sentence, paragraph or page, then your child reads the next sentence, paragraph or page. Move from picture books with minimal text to books with short chapters. You read one chapter, your child reads the next. Keep a homemade bookmark in the page where you finish reading.