CHIMACUM CREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL
READS ACROSS AMERICA
Promote
Reading, March 2-31Students and families are invited to participate with Chimacum Creek Primary School staff, the National Education Association, and students, families and teachers across the United States in the “Read Across America” Project. This is a nation wide event to promote literacy across the country and to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 2. Last year over 30 million children, adults and celebrities shared in reading books together as part of this project.School activities at Chimacum Creek Primary, March 2, include:
- Recognition/celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday
- Kick-off of the Chimacum Creek Reading Incentive Program
- Read Across America “Cat in the Hat” stickers for every student
- Classroom visits by community leaders to share favorite children’s stories
- Principal visits to each classroom to share a Dr. Seuss storybook
- Other classroom activities
Following March 2, Chimacum Creek Primary School staff are continuing to promote an “at home” reading incentive program between March 2-31. A school wide celebration and recognition of reading success will follow at the end of the reading incentive program.
Below you will find tips to support reading at home. We hope 100% of the Chimacum Creek Primary students and families will join us in this opportunity to emphasize and promote reading.
RAISING
A READER
From
PBS’s Between the LionsSimple but effective tips for parents and care givers:
- Visit your local library often. Get your children their own library card.
- Try a story hour or other free event at the library.
- Check out the local bookstore. A book or gift certificate always makes a terrific gift.
- Let your child see you reading, whether it’s the newspaper, a magazine, or the latest bestseller.
- Encourage older children to read to their younger brothers and sisters. Or have the whole family set aside some time to read together!
- Show your child how people use reading all the time. Read aloud street and store signs, maps, billboards, menus, and labels on packages.
- Create a library for your child of new and used books. Look for affordable books at yard sales, secondhand stores, and library book sales.
- Set up an area in your home where a variety of reading materials are within easy reach. Encourage writing by including paper, crayons, pens and pencils.
- Subscribe too a children’s magazine. Read it with your child every month.
- Carry books to read to your child wherever you go- at the doctor’s office, in line at the store or on a long car ride.
- Encourage a love of words by playing rhyming and word games, singing silly songs, or writing poems and stories together.
- Talk about daily activities or tell stories about your family or culture to help children develop their language skills.
- Visit the Between the Lions web site at: (www.pbskids.org/lions) for more on children and reading.
TIPS
FOR READING ALOUDFrom PBS’s Between the LionsHow to get the most of story time with children
- Begin reading to your child as an infant. Even babies love to hear your voice and to look at colorful pictures.
- Read to your child every day. If you can’t, ask someone else to be your child’s designated reader.
- Try to find a regular time and a quiet comfortable place for reading together.
- Turn off other distractions, such as the radio or television.
- Read slowly enough so that your child has time to take in the story and look at the pictures.
- Children may enjoy holding the book at turning the pages. Invite your child to point to words on the page or help you read the words. Explain unfamiliar words.
- Read with expression. Try creating different voices for different characters.
- Encourage your children to ask questions about the characters, pictures, and words.
- Talk about the story with your child. Did he or she like it? Why?
- Your child may want to read the same story over and over again. After several retellings, ask your child to tell you the story.
- Older children enjoy reading aloud, too. They can read their favorite parts, or you can take turns chapter books.
- Visit the Between the Lions web site at: www.pbskids.org/lions for more on children and reading.
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