Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
Module 4
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Setting the Stage for Literacy Explorations
Handout 24: Helping Your Child Become a Reader (continued)
Encourage your child to read and write.
- Work with other parents and Head Start staff to organize classroom lending libraries and sponsor book giveaway programs such as Reading is Fundamental.
- Borrow books from the local library.
- Store books and writing materials in a box, drawer, or low shelf where your child can reach them.
- Save paper bags, junk mail, catalogs, and magazines for children to use.
- Staple sheets of paper together using words and drawings, photographs, or pictures from magazines.
- Take turns reading the story aloud.
- Make letters your child can trace with a finger using sand paper, fabric scraps, or foam packing peanuts pasted on cardboard.
- Read aloud from a newspaper or magazine. Read the caption under an interesting photo.
- Talk about what you are writing: a shopping list, letter, or note on the calendar. Read it aloud.
- Read aloud at the grocery store: food packages, signs, prices, coupons.
- Read aloud at home: recipes or how to prepare packaged food.
- Fill a tote bag or backpack with books, paper, crayons, and other things for reading and writing. Bring it when you do errands, take a trip, or wait--for the doctor, store cashier, barber, or bus.
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