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Reading with Your ChildBy: Rachael Gittings

+Create Bonds

Read to them

Ask Questions

Twenty minutes a night

+Reading Growth

Children read earlier

Finds interest in books and

reading

Develops imagination

and creativity

Expression of feelings and

thoughts

Loves to read

+Reading Grows

Over time reading will have a huge impact on your child.

They will learn, grow, and develop so much through reading.

Speech will improve.

+Challenge Your Children

Children understand reading that is 2-3 years beyond their level

Show them maps to read and learn

“Who?, What?, When?, Where?” Ask them questions about different types of reading

+Reading

Promote reading as an importance

Don’t force it

Make it a privilege, not a chore

+Promote it!

Give them books as gifts

Have a book shelf eye level

Let them pick out new books

You read daily for pleasure

Read around them