TIPS for FAMILY LITERACY
1. Make reading accessible. Your public library has many great books to borrow – you only need to take out a membership card (at no charge). Garage sales are also great sources to keep books at home, but for variety, visit your library often.
2. Find books to match your child’s interests. Boys are often harder to interest in books – try funny books, non-fiction books, graphic novels. Let your kids pick out some books on their own, and you pick some too that you think they will enjoy.
3. Set aside a time for enjoying family reading that is part of a routine. You can share reading with your child – she reads a paragraph, you read a paragraph. Alternatively have her read something at her reading level, and you read a book to her that she wouldn’t be able to read on her own. Listening to stories builds literacy too!
4. Have books and magazines for yourself around and show your kids that you like to read. Kids always want to do what you are doing.
