Parents as Partners in Reading

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Parents as Partners in Reading

• Elizabeth Cardenas-Lopez Olga Vasquez
• Striving Readers

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Think-Pair-Share Activity

• Your name
• Your childs school
• of children
• What activity do you do together with your
  adolescent child?

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How do children develop as good readers?

• Parents are their childrens first teachers, and
  they continue to have an enormous influence over
  their childrens learning throughout life.
• Donna Ogle

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When do we begin to read aloud to our children?

• On the first day of their life!
• And every day after that!

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Make time!
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Develop your familys literacy skills
Enjoy reading, talking, and writing
together! Make this an important ritual in your
family!
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Read Aloud Activity

• Listen to the reading of the Lizard and the Sun
• Take two minutes and write your prediction or
  ideas of the folktale.
• Share in small groups

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Engaging your adolescent reader

• At home you can help by. . .
• Reading with your child, and have him/her point
  out text features such as title, headings,
  illustrations, table of content, key words, etc.
• Have your adolescent make connections with things
  that are familiar in their own experiences and
  world events.
• Expand vocabulary by making an effort to use new
  and different words. Encourage research.

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If your adolescent is developing as a reader

• At home you can help by ....
• talking about new words that your child reads
• showing your child how to figure out the words
  meaning
• talking to him about the meaning of the words and
  sentences as you read
• making connections to life experiences or other
  books you have read together

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Make conversation a part of every day

• Share conversations about books, life events, and
  school activities with your children over meal
  times and other times together
• Allow your children to express themselves
• Listen and learn from one another.

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Give your adolescent as many experiences as you
can

• Visit bookstores, libraries,
• museums, the zoo and parks
• Watch and discuss
• documentary movies
• Read and learn about
• other cultures and foreign
• lands
• Play word games

Does your child have a library card? If not,
make sure you get one TODAY !!!
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Paired Reading/Writing

• Select a poem that is appropriate for the
  interests and experiences of your child.
• Read the poem aloud by taking turns, and listen
  and visualize the hidden messages in the poetry.
• Discuss the messages with your child. Ask
  questions and make connections.
• You and your child write a poem reflecting your
  own thinking.
• Share the poem with the family.

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What else can we do to help our adolescents
engage with reading?

• Have books, magazines and newspapers at home
• Allow time and space for your children to read at
  home
• Encourage your children to read at least 30
  minutes every night
• Buy books as gifts
• Be a model reader to your children
• Relate reading to everyday needs

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The benefits of being a partner in reading

• The more you read, the better you get at it the
  better you get at it, the more you like it and
  the more you like it, the more you do it.
• The more you read, the more you know and the
  more you know, the smarter you grow.
• Jim Trelease

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A family gift

• Give the gift of reading
• Reading is knowledge knowledge is power.