Since reading is fundamental make sure to start the little ones off at an early age and then keep it going--check out the attached helpful hints taken from RIF Families Reading and Learning Together Home Activities Ages 0 – 2 • Sit your child on your lap and model turning the pages. Choose board, cloth, or vinyl books. • Take a picture walk. Talk about what is happening in the pictures. Repeat common picture names. • Recite or sing nursery rhymes or songs. • Encourage your child to point to the pictures and repeat words you say. • Use puppets and stuffed animals to help tell stories. • Reread favorite stories for repetition. • Use different voices for different characters. • Talk about the story and make connections. • Read nursery rhymes, picture books, books with detailed illustrations, and books with varied vocabulary. Ages 3 - 6 • Read your child’s favorite story to him/her in a quiet place. Ask your child to predict what will happen next. • Read a story with your child such as, Is Your Mama a Llama? Pick a word from the book and make a rhyme changing the beginning sound - bat, cat, dat • Boost your child’s word power by taking a “naming walk” indoors or outdoors, naming each item you come to— dog, chair, car, tree, etc. • Make a photo album by pasting photos or magazine pictures on construction paper. Write captions or record your child’s story about the pictures. • Dance the ABCs! Sing through the alphabet and move about, clapping and making up dance steps. • Ask your child to help you “cook” today by reading a recipe together or carefully cutting out coupons in the newspaper. • With your child, look for things in your home that begin with the first letter of your child’s name: “J is for Jack— what else starts with J? Jelly, jar, juice…” • Teach your child a song or nursery rhyme you remember from your childhood. Sing it, chant it, and clap it! • Try a new book. Take a “picture walk” through the book, looking at and talking about the pictures. • Play with magnetic letters or big letters cut out from a magazine/newspaper. Show your child how you can add or take away letters to make new words. • Make up words that rhyme with your child’s name—it’s okay if they’re silly! Make up rhymes for other family members’ names. Ages 7 – 12 • Talk to each other about books you have read during the day when you were at different places. • Plan the grocery list together. • Use the dictionary or glossary to look up words from your homework or words that you are curious about. • Let your child pick a book to read based on their interest. • Let children learn how to reflect by asking questions like: “What will happen next?” • Read information in books and newspapers and on websites. • Read, explore, memorize and recite poetry, do choral readings, and put on plays. • Read trade books centered on themes such as space, plants, geography, jobs, family, animals, friends, etc. • Read newspaper and magazines for current events, information, working with charts and graphs and using books and other written sources for scientific information. • Read nonfiction material tied to interesting subjects. • Read biographies. • Read to children in younger grades. Ages 13 – 18 • Read newspaper and magazines. • Look at labels in the store to create conversation about health and nutrition as well as economics. • Read online and print media. • Read the same book as your child and have book talks. For all children: • Visit the library and participate in children’s programs. Get your child a library card and make regular visits to the public library. You can apply for a library card at browardlibrary.org/lcapp.html. • Reading material suggestions: Fiction and Nonfiction Books, I Can Read Books, Chapter Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Cereal Boxes, Brochures – where you have visited or where you would like to visit, Menus, Signs, Letters, Postcards, Notes, Email, Recipes, textbooks, Maps/Globes, Dictionary • Interact with online text resources, such as wegivebooks.org/ and http
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