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Mad for Reading
Tips for parents about ways to enjoy reading with your young children and help them develop a lifelong love for books and reading.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Cook Those Books
With your child, design a meal that mimics what characters eat in a favorite book. Whether it is stone soup, green eggs and ham, or milk and cookies, have a real or pretend meal that involves your child helping you cook.
By living out the pages of a book, you are helping to bring a story to life. Plus you are encouraging your child’s imagination.
Let your child help you set the table and prepare the feast. Don’t worry too much about accuracy. Take a picture of your child enjoying the meal and keep it on your refrigerator. It will be a meal to remember!
Friday, June 5, 2020
Reading to Eradicate Racism
Monday, May 4, 2020
Challenging Times
Parents who normally try to limit "screen time" for their young children are struggling. As they juggle child care, work from home, and all the new and intense emotions that accompany a pandemic, this is a time to be flexible.
These are extreme times.
Choose the best options you can for your child. There are no easy answers. We are all in this together.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Read From the Beginning
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Read for Support
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Letters, We Get Letters . . .
Even young children enjoy receiving a communication addressed specifically to them. So, think about writing to the young children you know, or asking people to write to your child. There is a thrill to getting a hand-addressed note; it says "I care."
What I think . . .
There are all kinds of readers. Some—like my daughter and me—are never without a book to read for pleasure. Others—like my son—are careful, analytical, and curious readers who read primarily to seek information from the page.
No matter what kind of reader your child becomes, you can help him or her get started. After all, you are your child’s first teacher. And, best of all, you can have some fun in the process.
Please feel free to share your own ideas. Tell me about ways you've enjoyed reading with your child.
Madeline Boskey, Ph.D.
