
Labeling Items Around the House - Learning To Read - NPT3
2/2/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Labeling objects around the house can be a great exercise to build reading skills.
Make it impossible for your little one to avoid reading. Write the words of objects in your home on plain index cards and tape the cards to those objects. Label everything from doors and windows to favorite toys.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.

Labeling Items Around the House - Learning To Read - NPT3
2/2/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Make it impossible for your little one to avoid reading. Write the words of objects in your home on plain index cards and tape the cards to those objects. Label everything from doors and windows to favorite toys.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) - Ava, what should we put a label on?
- So maybe we should label the door.
- One way I help my daughter to read is by labeling things in the house.
This makes it impossible for her to avoid reading.
I write the words on the objects in our house on plain index cards and then tape the cards to those objects.
What's the word?
- Table.
- Good job.
We label everything from doors and windows to favorite toys.
I asked Ava to help me decide what things to label.
We sound out the word together while printing it out.
Ava, what does this say?
- Balloon.
B-a-ll-oon.
- Good job.
Labeling reinforces the connection between real life objects and visible print, which helps literacy.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.