Growing brains love to learn. Your pre-reader, beginning reader or emerging reader loves to try new things, and take on fun challenges. Introduce new activities into your family’s storytime! Here are some of our suggestions to try. Make sure you visit our reading games page too!
The Practickle experience centers around three readings – three explicit guides for each of our recommended books, which help young readers develop comprehension and reasoning skills. Storytime is your golden opportunity to unplug and engage, while improving school performance for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade readers!
This method is based on brain research. Each guide uses a singular focus and repetition of reading Best Practices to build the brain pathways necessary for deep comprehension. Most importantly, it is truly fun and engaging for your beginning reader!
Learning vocabulary can be a fun family experience! Dedicate a highly visible area as your new Word Wall, and post new words that your young reader has learned. This can be very casual, colorful, and creative. Organize it however you like. Then revisit it together, talking about the old and new words, and how different words relate to each other.
With a blank journal, your young reader can become a storyteller! Help him or her create new illustrations for the books you are reading together, or work together to write new stories.
There are many resources available to parents and caregivers. Here are some we have found to be truly stellar.