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Home > Main Library > Children's Library > Read to Your ChildHelp with Homework
Tips For Reading To Your Child
- Read to your baby: rhymes like "Mary Had a Little Lamb," a birthday card, the cereal box or a newspaper story you are reading. It's the sounds that are important. This web site gives the words to popular nursery rhymes Zelo Nursery Rhymes.
- Introduce simple pictures and story-books as the baby grows. Shapes, colors and sounds will delight.
- Visit the library often. Let the children get their own library cards and select their own books.
- Make a special time for reading aloud: after dinner, before bed ... anytime, anywhere, anyplace.
- Try lots of books. There's a book for everyone!
- Read more about people, places and things you see on television.
- Have older children read aloud while you do household chores.
- Keep plenty of reading materials around the house. Put children's books on low shelves.
- Let children see you read. Talk about what you read.
- Give books as gifts. Let children know you think books are special.
Why Read Aloud?
- It's fun for everyone ... it helps create a special bond.
- Children learn to read as they listen and look at books.
How To Read Aloud?Children who are read to:
- Share books you like.
- Let your voice get soft and loud.
- Change the pace of your reading ... slow or fast.
... from birth learn to read sooner and more easily than those who are not exposed to books. Reading to your children is the simplest and least expensive way to help them to future success in school. It is one of the most important things you can do as a parent. Children learn the reading skills in school, but often they associate reading with work, not pleasure. By far the most effective way to encourage your children to love books and reading is to read aloud to them, and the earlier you start, the better.
Booklists
See below for links to recommended reading:
