What can you do at home to promote literacy?
There are so many great ideas floating around!
Novel Effect app is awesome! You can add sound effects and background music to books being read aloud. Many popular titles you probably already own, plus you can do in-app purchases for those you don't. This is GREAT for improving your child's fluency (reading aloud with proper pauses for punctuation, inflection, etc.). App Store & Google Play
Turn on Closed Captioning for TV, DVDs, and video games. Your kid will be reading instead of merely watching. Learn how this builds vocabulary & spelling skills here.
Get a subscription/free trial to Kindle Unlimited.
Ditto Audible
Consider a neighborhood book swap to refresh your home bookshelves. Visit a “little library” close by...Wake County Public libraries are closed as of today.
Check out Common Sense Media to check out books/movies/TV shows/apps/videogames BEFORE you stream/download
Read aloud to your kids EVEN if they can read by themselves, about 2 grade levels over what they can do independently. It models fluency, teaches vocabulary and is just chill.
Encourage your child to read aloud to a sibling, pet, or even a stuffed animal.
There are so many great ideas floating around!
Novel Effect app is awesome! You can add sound effects and background music to books being read aloud. Many popular titles you probably already own, plus you can do in-app purchases for those you don't. This is GREAT for improving your child's fluency (reading aloud with proper pauses for punctuation, inflection, etc.). App Store & Google Play
Turn on Closed Captioning for TV, DVDs, and video games. Your kid will be reading instead of merely watching. Learn how this builds vocabulary & spelling skills here.
Get a subscription/free trial to Kindle Unlimited.
Ditto Audible
Consider a neighborhood book swap to refresh your home bookshelves. Visit a “little library” close by...Wake County Public libraries are closed as of today.
Check out Common Sense Media to check out books/movies/TV shows/apps/videogames BEFORE you stream/download
Read aloud to your kids EVEN if they can read by themselves, about 2 grade levels over what they can do independently. It models fluency, teaches vocabulary and is just chill.
Encourage your child to read aloud to a sibling, pet, or even a stuffed animal.