Create a Story Box or Story Basket
Here is a positive way to teach your child to care for books.
Decorate a large basket or box together with your child. This is your special family Story Box or Story Basket. When you visit the library, place your checked out books or materials into the basket or box. Keep it in a safe place, perhaps on a top shelf of a bookcase or the closet. Make some time for sharing stories and take down your Story Basket/Box. Enjoy the stories one at a time, sometimes your child may want to reread a favorite story over and over. Take your time to look at the pictures. Ask your child what he or she thinks might happen in the story. Dig up the actor or actress in yourself and be silly with the story to make it fun. If a book is a favorite from your childhood, tell your child about how you felt. Stories help us to connect. A Story Basket/Box is a great way to share books without the worry of loss or damage. It also models for your child that books are special to you. Then, make your own books!
Make a book that is strong, easy to clean and kid friendly!
Lynn Fontaine at the North Orange Branch of OCLS shares a great idea for making a book at home.
Start with an inexpensive photo album. Have your child fill the album with collected photos, your child's own drawing, and perhaps leaves or flowers, anything that can be part of a collage or story. Remember to encourage your child to talk about what he or she is placing into the book. If your child writes or uses scribbles as words, ask your child to tell you about what he or she has written. Sometimes the words just flow quicker than your child can write. Listen and then offer to help by writing a sentence that your child dictates. This is a fun way to encourage reading, writing, communication, and creativity as well as to practice and model writing. This is another way for your child to have free hands on experience by creating a book that may retell a story you have shared together from your Story Basket/Box. It also makes a good keepsake for your home library.
Make a book using fun craft materials like felt, foam or paper.
Take a long piece of paper and fold it in three. Now you can create a simple tri-fold book together. Stretch the learning and fun with your own creativity by making puppets, costumes, games, songs, plays from stories you read or imagine.
Links:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/audiencemenus/parents.cfm
http://www.getreadytoread.org/
Here is a positive way to teach your child to care for books.
Decorate a large basket or box together with your child. This is your special family Story Box or Story Basket. When you visit the library, place your checked out books or materials into the basket or box. Keep it in a safe place, perhaps on a top shelf of a bookcase or the closet. Make some time for sharing stories and take down your Story Basket/Box. Enjoy the stories one at a time, sometimes your child may want to reread a favorite story over and over. Take your time to look at the pictures. Ask your child what he or she thinks might happen in the story. Dig up the actor or actress in yourself and be silly with the story to make it fun. If a book is a favorite from your childhood, tell your child about how you felt. Stories help us to connect. A Story Basket/Box is a great way to share books without the worry of loss or damage. It also models for your child that books are special to you. Then, make your own books!
Make a book that is strong, easy to clean and kid friendly!
Lynn Fontaine at the North Orange Branch of OCLS shares a great idea for making a book at home.
Start with an inexpensive photo album. Have your child fill the album with collected photos, your child's own drawing, and perhaps leaves or flowers, anything that can be part of a collage or story. Remember to encourage your child to talk about what he or she is placing into the book. If your child writes or uses scribbles as words, ask your child to tell you about what he or she has written. Sometimes the words just flow quicker than your child can write. Listen and then offer to help by writing a sentence that your child dictates. This is a fun way to encourage reading, writing, communication, and creativity as well as to practice and model writing. This is another way for your child to have free hands on experience by creating a book that may retell a story you have shared together from your Story Basket/Box. It also makes a good keepsake for your home library.
Make a book using fun craft materials like felt, foam or paper.
Take a long piece of paper and fold it in three. Now you can create a simple tri-fold book together. Stretch the learning and fun with your own creativity by making puppets, costumes, games, songs, plays from stories you read or imagine.
Links:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/audiencemenus/parents.cfm
http://www.getreadytoread.org/
