Make Reading A Part Of Your Family Time!
Family time is so important… Why not make reading part of this valuable time with your kids?
Here are some tips for integrating reading into our daily family activities:
-Read bedtime stories
-Play a board game
-Visit your local library
-Read a recipe and cook something yummy together!
-Create a comfy reading space in your home.
-Put your child in charge of reading the grocery list at the store.
Choose Books That Are At An Appropriate Reading Level For Your Child
-Use the five finger rule. Open the book to any page and ask your child to read. Put up a finger every time your child does not know a word. If you have put up more than five fingers before the end of the page, this book is too hard for your child.
-Choose books that match your child’s likes and interests.
Keep plenty of reading materials in your home: books, magazines, newspapers, and comic books. Children enjoy having a variety of reading materials!
Read Books Online!
There are many fun and interactive websites for literacy.
Here are a few FREE online resources:
www.starfall.com
www.speakaboos.com
www.spellingcity.com
www.wegivebooks.org
http://interactivesites.weebly.com
How To Read With A Beginning Reader:
•Encourage your child to use his/her finger to point to each word.
•Read a sentence and have your child repeat it.
•Take turns reading a sentence each or a page each.
•Talk about the story as you read it. What do you think will happen next? What does this story remind you of? How do you think this character feels?
•Don’t be afraid to read the same book again! Repeated reading helps build reading fluency!
Check For Understanding
Start the book by making predictions. What do you think will happen in this story?
Ask questions and make comments duringthe reading process.
After reading a book, have your child tell you the events from the story in the correct order.
What was the problem in this story?
How did the character feel when…
Encourage your child to make connections. Does this story remind you of another book you read, an event in your life, a movie?
15-20 minutes is plenty for a beginning reader!
@ All Students Can SHINE 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Reluctant Reader Strategies
If your child is a reluctant reader and says that books are boring, let’s delve a little deeper to find out if books are really boring and then find strategies to help.
To find out, ask questions like:
2. Get social. Start a parent-child book club of your own. Gender and grade specific book clubs usually work best because of reading level and interest.
3. Get geeky. Kids love technology. Use that love to develop a love for reading, too. Read on a Kindle, Nook, iPad, or the computer. All have selections of good electronic books (e-books) for kids. (E-books books listed in the last chapter of Book Love.)
4. Get graphic novels. Graphic novels (full-length comic-style stories) don’t deserve the lack of reading status they’ve been given. They very much count as reading. Why not encourage it your kids to try one?
5. Get book bucks. Give your child money to spend on books – either at the bookstore or at a yard sale. With young children, instead of money, give them a book buck worth one book of any price. Printable Book Love Book Bucks.
6. Get movies. Want to see the movie? Read the book first. Or vice-versa. But usually the book beats the movie hands-down.
7. Get cozy. Make an enticing place for your child to curl up with a good book. Use your spaces and imagination. With your child’s help, designate a tent, corner, or closet for his reading nook. Your goal is to get your child to LOVE stories. Keep trying. Find out what motivates your child to move beyond “books are boring”.
(from: http://imaginationsoup.net/2012/11/7-ideas-for-a-child-who-thinks-book-are-boring/)
To find out, ask questions like:
“Do you remember any books that weren’t boring? “If you could read a not-boring book, what would it be about?” “Does boring mean tricky?”
If boring means boring, hooray! That’s quite a bit simpler than tricky. All you have to do is find the right book to hook your child into reading or right motivation to make reading fun. If boring means too tricky, then can use Book Love to figure out what part of the reading processes are challenging for your child. Book Love includes quick and easy home assessments.If Books are Boring, Try These Ideas
1. Get silly. Most kids are silly. Get books that will crack your kids up – no matter what age, gender, or interest. (Funny books listed in the last chapter of Book Love.)2. Get social. Start a parent-child book club of your own. Gender and grade specific book clubs usually work best because of reading level and interest.
3. Get geeky. Kids love technology. Use that love to develop a love for reading, too. Read on a Kindle, Nook, iPad, or the computer. All have selections of good electronic books (e-books) for kids. (E-books books listed in the last chapter of Book Love.)
4. Get graphic novels. Graphic novels (full-length comic-style stories) don’t deserve the lack of reading status they’ve been given. They very much count as reading. Why not encourage it your kids to try one?
5. Get book bucks. Give your child money to spend on books – either at the bookstore or at a yard sale. With young children, instead of money, give them a book buck worth one book of any price. Printable Book Love Book Bucks.
6. Get movies. Want to see the movie? Read the book first. Or vice-versa. But usually the book beats the movie hands-down.
7. Get cozy. Make an enticing place for your child to curl up with a good book. Use your spaces and imagination. With your child’s help, designate a tent, corner, or closet for his reading nook. Your goal is to get your child to LOVE stories. Keep trying. Find out what motivates your child to move beyond “books are boring”.
(from: http://imaginationsoup.net/2012/11/7-ideas-for-a-child-who-thinks-book-are-boring/)
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