http://www.mommyniri.com/2009/06/reading-is-for-all-seasons/ The world according to Mommy Niri Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.mommyniri.com/2009/06/reading-is-for-all-seasons/comment-page-1/#comment-9657 Betty N Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:53:43 +0000 http://www.mommyniri.com/?p=2007#comment-9657 Reading to your children is a great way to help children not only learn to read but to bring meaning to the text...the child sees how you handle a book, how you use inflection in your voice for questions and for variety, how you stop at the end of sentence, reading pictures (what do you see in the picture? What is happening in the picture? Where does this story take place?) If the text is large you can match word cards to some of the story words on a page. You can take story characters...bird, duck, etc and see how many things you can find that begin like those words. All of these things can be done before the child can read even one word. Reading to your children is a great way to help children not only learn to read but to bring meaning to the text…the child sees how you handle a book, how you use inflection in your voice for questions and for variety, how you stop at the end of sentence, reading pictures (what do you see in the picture? What is happening in the picture? Where does this story take place?) If the text is large you can match word cards to some of the story words on a page. You can take story characters…bird, duck, etc and see how many things you can find that begin like those words. All of these things can be done before the child can read even one word.

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