Educational Reading Services
Children's Book Author
"A Book Can Take You Anywhere"
Reading Aloud
Reading aloud is one of the most important activities parents can do with their children. Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, expressive reading, and helps children recognize what reading for pleasure is all about.
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Read to your child 20 minutes a day.
MORE READING TIPS
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Every month is Reading Month!
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Hold your book at a comfortable level.
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Use your index finger to guide under each word.
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Read pages from left to right.
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If you don’t know a word, SOUND IT OUT!
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Sign a contract - No TV for one week - only books. 😊
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Go to www.drawandtell.com. Make up your own story.
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Make a “book friend”.
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Think out loud and ask questions.
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Talk and Share.
TIPS FOR READING A POEM
​​1. Read the poem all the way through, two times.
2. Think about background knowledge.
How do you connect to the people, animals or objects in the poem?
3. Try to make a picture in your head of what’s happening in the poem.
4. What do you think the poem is about?
TIPS TO INCREASE READING KNOWLEDGE
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Early reading is the KEY!
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Twenty minutes a day, parents, grandparents, older siblings
READ to your children -
A Book can take you anywhere!
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Read Aloud the most important reading activity