7 Nights of Reading To Increase Your Child's Language Skills
40To help encourage and enrich your child’s ability to recall information, answer questions, predicting and overall memory and reasoning skills, all you have to do is one simple thing. Read a book to them. It’s probably already something that you do, but you must do it with a twist. Read the same book for seven (7) nights in a row. By doing this your child becomes familiar with the story, the characters and the events. By night seven your child should be predicting the events in the stories identifying characters, asking relevant questions about the story, and answering question correctly regarding the text. For a challenge, ask you child to make up a story about what he thinks happened after the story ended. For younger children, you may notice an increase vocabulary, longer sentences and an increased interest in books.
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Christa Dovel says:
8 months ago
For this purpose, I love to read the book onto a tape the first night, and let my boys listen to it as many times as they like through out the next day. They love to have a new story, and will listen to it many times over the next few weeks, learning not only vocabulary and order, but about each character's personality. They can then play games based on the different personalities, and have a better understanding of people.