What's in a book?
The whole world and more...
How many times have you read a book, or had one read to you, and then went to see the movie?
You were then disappointed because somehow the movie just wasn't what you thought it was going to be like.
This is because your imagination is greater than anything someone else can put on film.
Reading books takes us to places we can only dream of. Books and reading are a wonderful thing.
Helping a young child to love books and the importances of reading can be quite a challenge for some. Making it fun should be on the top of our priority list.
For little readers find easy to read books that your child can help read and learn to identify sight words.
How I do this...
I let my daughter choose one of the word cards that go along with the book. Then each time we come across the word in the book, we clap our hands. We repeat this with each word. By the end of the week my daughter has the book memorized and knows each sight word.
Teach your child about the book...
Cover
front of the book
back of the book
how to open it
which page to read first
how the words go from left to right
You might be laughing right now, thinking, anyone knows that.
But guess what, children don't.
Help your child understand what you (or they) have just read read by having them retell the story in their own words.
Use story cards that go with the story and have your child put them in order. These may be cards with just pictures or pictures with words.
This is called story sequencing.
Reading longer books to your child helps your child's imagination flow. It helps them learn to sit and listen.
You can ask questions during the book like,
Do you think this is book is fiction or non fiction?
What do you think will happen next?
Do you think that was a good idea?
Let the child answer!
You come up with questions to ask as you read the book..
This keeps your child on their toes an wondering what comes next.
Was there answer right?
Do you like how the book ended, could it have ended differently?
Reading also helps with comprehending the spoken language and to speak in sentences, helps build vocabulary with new words, and identify rhyming words.
We love the other activities in the More Literacy book by Mother Goose.
One of this month's activities was Growing words.
It helped my daughter identify words and build her own sentences.
Of course she put words together that didn't make sense and we laughed. Just part of the learning experience.
If we make reading fun, then our child will learn to love reading.
Reading is all around us. Even in math. If we can't read, then the world around us is difficult and hard to understand.
Give your child a great beginning, read to them. And then teach them to read!
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