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Mr. Brown's Kindergarten Class
Tips for Parents
Taken from the Reading is Fundamental website at
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- Read with your children at least once every day.
- Make sure they have plenty to read. Take them to the library regularly, and keep books and other reading materials
in their reach.
- Notice what interests your child, then help find books about those things.
- Respect your child's choices. There's nothing wrong with series fiction if that's what keeps a young reader
turning the pages.
- Praise your children's efforts and newly acquired skills.
- Help your child build a personal library. Children's books, new or used, make great gifts and appropriate rewards
for reading. Designate a bookcase, shelf or box where your children can keep their books.
- Check up on your children's progress. Listen to them read aloud, read what they write and ask teachers how
they're doing in school.
- Go places and do things with your children to build their background knowledge and vocabulary, and to give
them a basis for understanding what they read.
- Tell stories. It's a fun way to teach values, pass on family history and build your children's listening and
thinking skills.
- Be a reading role model. Let your children see you read, and share some interesting things with them that you
have read about in books, newspapers or magazines.
- Encourage writing along with reading. Ask children to sign their artwork, add to your shopping list, take messages
and make their own books and cards as gifts.
- Limit your children's TV viewing in an effort to make time for other activities, such as reading. But
never use TV as a reward for reading, or a punishment for not reading.
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