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Welcome to Raising Readers
As you make summer plans, we encourage you to continue to make books and reading part of every day. Shake up your reading routine by taking it outside, or if you're visiting family or friends encourage them to read with your little ones. Most of all, make sure the time spent reading together is fun!
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 Summer Time is Reading Time
Best Reads for the Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer
Our best advice about a summer reading routine? Take it outside! Whether you're at the beach, in your backyard, or on the road for a family vacation, make books and reading with your littles ones part of your summer plans.
Check out our pinboard filled with books about summer. Or, check out the links below for some recommended summer reads.
Don't forget to check out your local library! Many of them offer summer reading programs or have story time or other activities for very young children.
Summer Reading Tips for Parents of Babies, Toddlers and Young Children
Reading Rockets 2013 Big Summer Read - recommended reads for 0 - 3 year olds and 3 - 6 year olds
Road Trip? Travel Reads: Selecting Books for Family Vacations
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 Did You Know?
Exposing children to a variety of new experiences, like new sights, sounds and
smells, and especially language and literacy, helps build the foundation necessary for learning to read and write. Since the brain operates on a "use it or lose it" basis, the more stimulation and interaction that a child has with her environment (being read, talked to, played with) the stronger the connections, or wiring in the brain become. |
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| Latest News | | Promote Letter Recognition
Before children can learn to read, they need to be able to identify the letters of the alphabet. It's easy to make up letter-spotting activities in almost any setting. Try these ideas:
Make letter pretzels. Try this recipe.
Play letter scavenger hunt. Write a letter on a brown paper bag. Have your child find some- thing that has that letter written on it. Or, help your child find things that start with that letter.
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