|
|
|
Read With Me! NEW RESOURCE!
A great resource for early reading materials!!!
|
HELPING YOUR CHILD JOIN THE LITERACY CLUB
THINGS YOU SHOULD DO: Talk, talk talk! Children who have good language skills and large vocabularies have a better foundation for reading. Discuss everyday and extraordinary events at length. Point out fun things you notice while driving or at the grocery store. Play the "I Wonder" game (e.g. "I wonder where that fire engine is going?")
Read, read, read. Reading to you child is the single most important literacy building activity that you can provide. Children are never too young or too old to be read to. Choose good books and keep reading fun and stress-free.
Demonstrate literacy. To attract children to reading and writing, we must show them what literate adults do. Children need to see adults reading, just as they listen to adults talking, if they are to learn the importance of reading. Newspapers, magazines, and books should literally overflow in a home that is growing a crop of young readers.
Support, not correct. Nobody is as good a reader as they could possibly be. Avoid needlessly correcting children as they read with you. Celebrate thier attempts to get things right.
Build responsibility. Provide opportunities for your child to choose his or her own books. Get a library card. Talk about the books your child selected and later talk about whether he or she liked the books.
Set reasonable expectations. Do not expect your child to learn to read overnight, or at the same place as another child, or to love every book you read. Remember that each child is an individual. We want to encourage reading, not force it.
YOU DO NOT NEED:
Phonics books, tapes, or other workbooks. Would you want to join a club that was having as much fun as a phonics worksheet? Your child will learn phonics once he or she reaches school age. Better to leave this to the classroom teacher.
A critical eye to hunt for errors. If you are looking for errors, you will surely find them - and this is what your child will focus on. It is more difficult, yet more beneficial, to focus on successes. Then you become partners in literacy!
|
Send mail to readwmec@readwme.com with
questions or comments about this web site.
|
