Fisher-Price PowerTouch User Manual page 8

Ways to Build Literacy Skills
Before Reading
• Introduce your child to the title of the book. Touch
each word in the title. Ask your child to repeat it.
Encourage your child to touch the words and hear
the title read again and again.
• Ask your child to think about the title and then tell you what the story
might be about. You might ask, "What do you think will happen with
the characters in the story?"
While Reading
• Help your child explore the different reading modes on each
page. For example, while in the spelling mode, encourage your child to
say each letter out loud as it is heard.
• Encourage your child to recognize letter sounds. In the phonics mode, help your child notice
that each letter has its own sound or sounds (as in hard and soft "c"). Ask your child to
touch each letter to hear its sound and then ask your child to repeat each sound out loud.
Your child can then join the sounds together to read the entire word and you can point out
the different sounds.
• Create excitement around reading! Ask your child, "What do you think will happen next in
the story?"
After Reading
• Ask your child to tell you about the story you just read
together. Ask questions like, "What happened first?
Next? What happened after that? What happened
at the end of the story?"
• Now it's time for fun! Touch any of the Interactive
Games on any page on the right side.
• Your child can touch any of the words in a book
in a different order to create new, fun sentences!
• Encourage your child to use the Power Touch
reading approach with any book. Ask your child
to point to the words while you read them aloud.
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