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SOME THINGS YOU MIGHT DO TOGETHER
Have your beginning reader read to younger children-either in your family
or in the neighborhood. This will help them build their confidence in their
reading skills.
Tell family stories. Describe real episodes in your family
life-or make some up using the family members as characters. Children often
enjoy hearing stories about when they were little.
Talk about the order
you do things. For example, when your children go to bed, what do they do
first? What do they do last? If they understand things happen in a certain
order, it helps get them ready to read longer stories and chapter books.
Go online to investigate reading activities. You might start right here
with Reading Rainbow's
online activities related to the book Digging Up Dinosaurs. Other
book-related activities will be posted here in the future.
Check this site often to find the latest.
Buy a children's dictionary or make one of your own. Buy an inexpensive
binder and add notebook paper. Cut our pictures from a magazine. Write a
letter of the alphabet on each page. Work together to paste pictures of
things that begin with that sound on each page. You may even want to add
simple words to describe the picture.
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