Create a reading area that you and your child can go to everyday.
Store reading materials in a special area
Join your child in the reading experience.
You read, they read---take turns
Talk with your child about how to care for the books or reading materials
Make your own reading materials to use at home.
Help your child pick out books
Go to a library
Get a library card
Order books on a kindle
Record yourself reading or your child reading so they can hear themselves.
Before you read:
Make predictions about what the book will be about, by looking at the cover and reading the title.
Teach child how to hold the book and turn the pages.
Talk about the front of the book and the back of the book.
During reading:
stop and reflect with child
ask questions
Let them ask questions
Ask I wonder........................Let them try to answer
After you read:
Talk about what you each learned and what you thought about book
were your predictions right?
Tip:
If you go somewhere (mall, airport, church, restaurant) take a book bag with books your child likes.
Store reading materials in a special area
Join your child in the reading experience.
You read, they read---take turns
Talk with your child about how to care for the books or reading materials
Make your own reading materials to use at home.
Help your child pick out books
Go to a library
Get a library card
Order books on a kindle
Record yourself reading or your child reading so they can hear themselves.
Before you read:
Make predictions about what the book will be about, by looking at the cover and reading the title.
Teach child how to hold the book and turn the pages.
Talk about the front of the book and the back of the book.
During reading:
stop and reflect with child
ask questions
Let them ask questions
Ask I wonder........................Let them try to answer
After you read:
Talk about what you each learned and what you thought about book
were your predictions right?
Tip:
If you go somewhere (mall, airport, church, restaurant) take a book bag with books your child likes.