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At-Home Reading Tips The National PTA Planning Your PTA Year 1994
At-Home Reading Tips Make the public library a part of your children's lives. Check on special programs and activities that the library may offer to different age groups of children, including story hours, reading contests and discussion groups. Use the library with your children. Help them learn how to locate books with the help of librarians and catalog systems. Encourage enthusiasm by making your children feel proud of their selection of books. In order to encourage success, set a good reading example for your children. Be sure they have plenty of opportunities to see you enjoying reading. Talk with your children about what you read, what you've learned and how much you enjoy it. Set aside a regular time for reading at home. It should be a time when the whole family can participate. Read together. Select reading material your children will enjoy. Try not to limit the types of materials. Use magazines, newspapers, comics, brochures and instructions as well as books. Look over materials for words that may be unfamiliar to you or your children. When reading, pronounce the word and explain the meaning. Give your children a chance to read the word and explain it to you as well. If time allows, have your children read the selection silently first, before reading it out loud. This will help them gain confidence and understand it better. Ask questions while reading. Start out with simple questions about the story. Later, ask questions that require an opinion or conclusion. Encourage your children to ask questions also. Share reading out loud with your children. You can take turns reading paragraphs, sentences or even whole books. If your child struggles with a word, tell him or her the word and continue. Be sure that this is a pleasant experience and not a difficult task for either you or your child. Go over what you read with your children. Let them tell you what they've read. Talk about what you each liked or disliked in what was read. Try to remember and use any new words you read. When you finish reading together, encourage your children with praise. Be enthusiastic about improvement as well as good work. A warm "thank you" with a smile and a hug can make a world of difference. Excerpted and adapted from The National PTA Talks to Parents: How to Get the Best Education for Your Child, Copyright © 1989 by the National PTA. Permission to reprint has been granted. Please credit National PTA. |
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