Parent tips for reading
- Read to your child or have your child read to you for at least 20 minutes every day. This will allow your child to hear one million more words a year!
- Let your child know that reading time is special. What a great way to spend time together!
- Read books that you loved when you were a child and talk to your child about why you love them. Or have someone else read with them.
- Read a book over and over. Children love repetition and learn from it.
- The more animated you are when you read, the better your child will follow the story.
- Pause periodically to see if your child understands what you are reading. Ask them questions about what you have read.
- Ask your child to picture what is happening while you read. Ask what sounds and smells might be in the story.
- After you finish reading a book together, encourage your child to retell the story, make up a new ending, write or draw pictures about the story.
- Have your child tell the story by using the illustrations before you read the book.
- Tell them a story as that fosters a love of stories in general.
- Go and see a movie of a book you have read.
- Make reading fun!