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Reading at Home with Your Child

Read CCS Reading Guidelines below!

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Read aloud to your child regularly.

          -   Read stories chosen by your child.

          -   Read novels chapter by chapter as a serial.

          -   Use picture books, even with older children.

Read Together.

-         Cook together using a recipe.

-         Share interesting stories from newspapers or magazines.

-         Check the weather or sports results in newspapers.

-         Read the mail: letters, emails, flyers and notices.

Give your child real-life reading and writing jobs.

-         Follow the map when you go on a trip.

-         Read bus and train schedules.

-         Find numbers in a telephone book.

-         Jot down phone messages.

-         Make a shopping list.

-         Send postcards and greeting cards.

Make sure your child enjoys reading.

-         Praise success.

-         Talk about what you like to read.

-         Give books as gifts.

-         Let your child see you reading for pleasure and information.

-         Visit the public library.