Family Support: Expanding Reader (Ages 7–9)
Keep reading to your child, even when he or she can read independently.
Provide time for your child to read at night (15–30 minutes).
Encourage your child to practice reading aloud to siblings, relatives, or senior citizens.
Use the public library for storyteller sessions, books on tape, book lists, and recommendations.
Look for books that match your child's interests. (Bookstore staff, librarians, and your child's teacher can help you.)
Talk about how you select books and the types of things you like to read.
Have your child keep a list of books he or she finishes or would like as gifts.
Help your child learn how to find information in books.
Model how you look up words you don’t know in a dictionary.
Subscribe to children's magazines, such as
Kid City
,
Ranger Rick
, or
Contact Kids
.
Talk about the characters from books, movies, and television programs.
Read and compare several versions of a story (such as a fairy tale or folktale).
When your child reads aloud and makes a mistake, don’t correct your child right way. Provide enough time for your child to self-correct.
Talk with your child about his/her reading strategies. Give positive encouragement.
Play word games, such as
Boggle
,
Hangman
, or
Junior Scrabble
.
Cook together. Ask your child to read and explain the directions.
Ask relatives to send your child postcards when they go on trips.
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