Parent Practices
Motivating Children to Read
The importance of Reading at Home
Did you know that by reading with your child for 20 minutes a day will expose them to nearly 1,800,000 words? That is 3,600 minutes of reading for the school year in addition to reading in school.
Encouraging Reading at Home
- Establish a routine schedule for reading with your child
- Read to your child and allow them to read to you
- Compliment their reading
- Provide access to a library of books that are relevant to your child (library, school, or websites)
How to promote learning and reading at home
- Ask your child questions that spark their curiosity
- Use formal language around your children to spur conversations about word meanings that enrich student vocabulary
- Communicate with teachers and support classroom learning at home
- Children should catch their parents reading and writing in response to their reading
- Provide enjoyable experiences that allow children to read such as using a recipe to bake, using instruction manuals to build, or conducting research about an exciting topic
reading for enjoyment
- Help children select books that they can fluently read
- Allow children to reread and listen to their favorite books over and over again
- Allow children to act out what they are reading or create a new ending
- Utilize technology as a resource for positive reading experiences
Reading Apps
Read Me Stories
Each day a new free book becomes available to read.
Wonderopolis
Pictures, videos, passages, vocabulary, and questions are provided about different wonders. For example, How Does A Zipper Zip? or Can Taste Buds Taste?
Disney Storytime
Disney Classics can be read or read aloud with music.