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| | Creative ways that you can use books to teach the love of reading
Are you wondering what else you can do for your child to help prepare him or her for school? Here are some creative ways to strengthen the parent and child bond, prepare children for school and reading, and to provide numerous opportunities for communication.
After you have read a book with your child:
- Talk about the child's favorite part of the story or favorite character. Encourage the child to draw a picture related to the book. Ask the child: "What was your favorite part of the story?”
- Together with your child, retell the stories from memory or from the pictures of the book.
- Recreate an event from the story. For example, play a game the characters played in the book, or cook the food that they ate.
- Sit with your child and ask them to invent and tell you stories about the characters in the book. Write down their story in their own words. Older children can write their own story.
- Pick a word or words out of the story. Use words that are new to your child or words that your child enjoys. Write them down and hang them up on a "word wall."
- Bring your child to the library and take out additional books by the same author. Encourage the child to find books of their choice to borrow.
- Re-read the story and encourage your child and other siblings or friends to choose characters and "act out" the story as you read it to them.
- Put books in a place where young children can point to or retrieve whenever they feel the desire to look at the book. Storing the
books in an accessible spot will allow the child to take ownership over the books. Discuss with your child different ways to take care of books.
Reading is a wonderful way to spend time together.
From the Family Literacy Foundation.
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