I just finished reading Jim Trelease's The Read-Aloud Handbook and boy did it give me a healthy dose of motivation!
If you will ever have any influence in a child's life, I recommend reading it.
But if you want the short version, here it is.
1) Read to your kids
2) Make books available and market them to your kids (make them appealing and accessible, like by shelving them face out instead of spine out)
3) Read to your kids
4) Be an example of reading for pleasure
5) Read to your kids
6) Require your children to read
7) Make more time to read to your kids
I've decided to focus less on an "organized" preschool and just put my efforts towards reading every day for at least half an hour to Guy. I need to get or make some more French books for him to read, to help with his French vocabulary.
Definitely worth checking out, though. I borrowed the copy I read from the Provo Library.
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Reading is super important! It's even important to read to your newborns :) It's amazing what a difference you can see between kids whose families read to them and encourage them to read and families that don't.
We've been scanning the pages from some of Vince's favorite children's books and then translating them into Portuguese and getting them printed. We would like to get nice copies printed, but for now I'm just going to get them printed and spiral-bound at kinkos or something. We've done A Pocket for Corduroy, and we're going to do Are You My Mother, and a few others. It's a lot easier than trying to track down Portuguese books. Some day when we visit Brazil or Portugal we will patronize the children's bookstores.
Anyway, maybe you can do the same? Some of the computers on campus have pretty good scanners.
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