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Reading! Reading! Books and Words Everywhere!- Print Motivation

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Last week I started a series on Setting Up a Literacy Center with vocabulary related activities. This week we are going to look at print motivation. Reading words and books everywhere we go.

 

Ways to work on Print Motivation

 

Birth to 5-years old

 

    • Read to your child even as a newborn. You can talk about the pictures as well as read the words.

 

    • Engage your child in the story by pointing to the repeated words or phrases and “reading” them together.

 

    • Make book sharing a special time to cuddle and be close to your child.

 

    • Let your child see you reading books, magazines, and newspapers.

 

    • Give books or gift cards to bookstores as gifts.

 

  • Visit your public library.

Here are some ways we do this:

    • We read our environment. We read boxes, signs, mail, words on trucks, store signs and billboards.

 

    • Books are located in every room of our house. Yes, we have them in the bathroom.

 

    • JDaniel loves to “read” his dad’s book on Fighter Jets. We have been picture walking them for over a year.

 

    • I leave out words in sentences of books JDaniel is familiar with to have him fill in the blank.

 

    • We visit bookstores and the library to look at books a lot.

    • Reading stories before bedtime is part of our nightly routine.

 

    • My husband and I have our bible reading times with JDaniel nearby.

 

    • Sometimes I read while he is playing.

 

  • We pick up grocery circulars when we go to the grocery store. JDaniel loves to “read” them on the way home and while I get dinner ready.

 

 

If you are not a strong reader, you can:

    • Check out books with CDs or tapes from the library. You can listen and “read” the books with your child.

 

    • Take your child to storytimes and have them listen to others read.

 

    • Listen to storytimes on the radio or internet together.

 

  • Ask your librarian for high interest low vocabulary books. They are available on all types of topic and easier reading levels.

 

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. I really think my mother must have done this with me; for as long as I can remember I have been reading anything I can get my eyes on! And now as an adult I consume books with a fervor (and frequency!) usually reserved for chocolate…

  2. Great tips. I especially like that you read your Bible in front of JDaniel. That will also set the example to read the Word and keep God in the picture. Good for you!

    Stopping by from SITS.

  7. Welcome to Mama’s Little Nestwork! Make sure to visit throughout the week and comment on featured bloggers and show support. Bloglove! Features are chosen from the Nest. Have a great day!
    I love the idea of setting up a literacy center. I do a lot with reading and words with my daughter.

    Mama Hen

  8. When my children were small we did all of the things you suggested to help our children develop a love of books and reading. It’s amazing how becoming an early reader helped give them a head start. As my son got older, he and I started our own “book discussion group” (just the two of us.) He never wanted me to be ahead of him in the book and that encouraged him to spend hours reading.

  9. Great tips, but I do have difficulty getting my 36 and 38-year-old sons to let me read to them.

  12. Great tips, I do have trouble with this as my 3 year old is just not interested (and never has been) in books. It’s been a big shock to me as someone who adores reading, I could read by the time I was 2 and I’ve been reading to him his whole life.

    What he does get excited about though, is finding letters that he knows, so whenever he spots one we read the word that it’s in and all that good stuff.

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