- You wanna watch some TV?
- Okay.
- How about we turn on some captions?
- Okay.
- As an elementary school principal and a father, I'm always looking for creative ways to help my son build his foundational reading skills.
Believe it or not, turning on captioning while your child watches TV or videos does just that.
Closed caption and subtitled shows and movies can help with phonics, word recognition, and fluency.
All right, I wanna hear you read the next one, okay?
- Today is the day.
- That's right.
Many struggling and even new readers sometimes avoid text.
Captions are an engaging way to provide additional print exposure, improving literacy.
Look at the panda.
Seeing and hearing unfamiliar words at the same time can help improve your child's understanding of the material and vocabulary words.
Research shows that watching videos has a positive impact on comprehension skills, and combining that with text or captions helps readers of all levels.
- [Narrator] Sponsored by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, helping build literacy skills and encouraging parents and children to spend 20 minutes a day reading together.