How do you help your child learn to read? The Tessy and Tab Reading Club believes that you must make reading fun for kids and allow lots of trying and practice. They do this by providing kids with kid-friendly books with darling illustrations about familiar life experiences. Tessy and Tab will be your child's first beginning reader book club! I know you're already developing your child's … [Read more...]
The 4 Big Reasons Kids Don’t Like to Read
Why don’t kids like to read? There are all sorts of reasons, but they boil down to 4 big reasons. In order to help your child not just learn to read but love to read, you need to know why she doesn’t like to read in the first place. (Excerpted from Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader.) 4 Big Reasons Kids Don't Like to Read Too boring Too tricky Too … [Read more...]
10 Book-Loving Picture Books & 10 Book-Fun Activities
by Lorie of Reading Confetti We all want to raise a reader. In my family we've found ten favorite book-loving picture books and ten book-fun activities. Try them and see if they inspire new ways to love books in your family! Book-Loving Books: 1. Wild About Books by Judy Sierra - In this fun rhyming book-loving story, librarian Molly McGrew takes her bookmobile to the library. After … [Read more...]
Thinking Strategies in Reading Comprehension
Kids need to be taught what good readers do. Believe it or not, it's not intuitive. This means we must teach kids reading comprehension strategies. One of the best things you can teach a child is to think about their thinking, or to be metacognitive, and to purposefully use strategies when reading. (P.S. Check out this amazing lesson on metacognition from Diane Dahl!) I graduated from a … [Read more...]
What Should Your School’s Reading Instruction Look Like?
Do you remember how you learned to read? Were you in a reading group? Did you use the SRA boxes? Plenty of research tells us what works best for learners who are learning to read and what the best method of reading instruction is. Reading Instruction What we should see in our children's classrooms when it comes to reading instruction: Student-centered. Children select their own books -- … [Read more...]