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Why Is Reading With Your Child Important?
- stimulates your child's imagination
- develops your child's interest in reading and in books
- improves your child's listening skills
- builds vocabulary
- helps your child to understand stories and 'book language'
- creates a bond between you and your child
- provides your child with a positive role model
Reading aloud...
Set aside a time to read aloud to your child each evening!
- Read Aloud Handbook- excerpts from the popular book by Jim Trelease
- Reading/Literacy Tips -short video clips showing home literacy opportunities (from Between the Lions)
- Helping Your Child with Reading at Home (Grades K-3)
- Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love To Read by Cullinan, Bernice E.; Strickland, Dorothy S. (Scholastic, 2000) ISBN 043908721X
Helpful Hints
- Read a favorite story more than once.
If your child asks for a story to be read again--Read it again! The repetition assists your child in gaining word recognition, story sequence, vocabulary, story book language, etc. Most importantly, your child is enjoying the story!
- Focus on enjoyment.
Choose stories that both of you will enjoy. Think about what your child's favorite things are or what they like to do.
- Read from a variety of genres.
Read traditional tales and rhymes such as The Little Red Hen and 'Old Mother Hubbard' as well as stories that play with language such as Dr. Seuss' ABC's. Also, don't forget about stories that you can sing such as The Five Little Ducks by Raffi. Books with lots of repetition, predictability, and rhyme are perfect for young readers!
Stories on the Web
There are many stories for children on the internet! These are a few sites that your family may enjoy. However, snuggling up with a good book and letting your child turn the pages, etc. still can't be beat!
- Ant Bee Inc. Stories
- Bedtime Stories- Stories to read aloud (You will need to scroll down to see an index of the stories.)
- Kids Korner
- Mercer Mayer's Just Me and My Dad
- Mother Goose - Two traditional stories and 1 nursery rhyme
- The North Star - Choose a character and then follow along!
- Nursery Rhymes -Kids can read along with the help of the pictures.
- Old Time Fairy Tales
- Sebastian the Swan
- Story Bear's Stories
- Story Book Lane - You can choose what happens!
- Story Books On Line
- Story Box
- Story Hour
- Story Place - Stories with corresponding online and printable activities
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