{"id":42,"date":"2021-08-31T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2021-08-31T20:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:07:04","slug":"reading-with-your-little-ones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/reading-with-your-little-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading with your Little Ones!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Reading<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Encouraging your child to read books stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world. It helps them develop language and listening skills and prepares them to understand the written word.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Here are some helpful tips when reading together that I myself use when teaching reading!<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-648 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/uploads\/sites\/18747\/2020\/11\/08153123\/ried-e1604849509677.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-649 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/uploads\/sites\/18747\/2020\/11\/08153258\/dkerk-e1604849602255.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-651 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/uploads\/sites\/18747\/2020\/11\/08153459\/edoriork-e1604849723404.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-653 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/uploads\/sites\/18747\/2020\/11\/08153652\/cdkrk-e1604849839479.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/uploads\/sites\/18747\/2020\/11\/08153843\/eikt-e1604849947181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-656 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/public\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/uploads\/sites\/18747\/2020\/11\/08154053\/fiktrk-e1604850074788.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-658 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/files\/2020\/11\/dikrkrf-e1604850219694.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-659 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/files\/2020\/11\/jrjr-e1604850332462.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-661 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/files\/2020\/11\/dkk-e1604850449243.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Tips for Reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Let your child help you choose a book you would like to read together.<\/li>\n<li>Find a comfortable place for you to read and sit together.<\/li>\n<li>Do things that will make reading\u00a0a book more entertaining to your child \u2013 and to you.\u00a0 You can use different tones of voice for different situations, choose different voices for characters, and so on.\u00a0 It is not just what you are reading that matters, but also how you read it.<\/li>\n<li>You may tell\u00a0the story in your own words if the words on the book is too complex for your child, and you don\u2019t want him to lose interest.<\/li>\n<li>Give your child time to make the most out of every page of the book.\u00a0 Encourage him to look at the pictures, point out objects, repeat words, and talk about the story.<\/li>\n<li>Ask questions like \u201cWho did that?\u201d, \u201cWhat is she doing?\u201d, \u201cWhat is that called?\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0Also, to keep your child involved in the story, do not read straight through.\u00a0 Ask questions like \u201cWhy do you think it happened?\u201d and \u201cWhat do you think will happen next?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>After reading a book, take time to ask your child question about what he liked or didn\u2019t like about the story. Discussing pictures and ideas in the book helps your child understand.<\/li>\n<li>To build your child\u2019s vocabulary, ask him\/her about where an object is in the book.\u00a0 Praise him\/her every time he\/she points or names an object.<\/li>\n<li>Choose books that tell a story with a lot of repetition and have the same words appearing over and over.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-676 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1sessionmisstaylor20202021\/files\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_20190113-101428_Bitmoji-e1604857303199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"251\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend a lot of time talking about illustrations on the book. Reading pictures is how children begin to read text.<\/li>\n<li>If you have more than one child, read to each child separately,<\/li>\n<li>especially if they\u2019re more than 2 years apart.\u00a0 Reading to children with different ages together is also a good practice.<\/li>\n<li>Remember to take your child to the library regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Encouraging your child to read books stimulates their imagination and expands their understanding of the world. It helps them develop language and listening skills and prepares them to understand the written word. Here are some helpful tips when reading together that I myself use when teaching reading! Tips for Reading Let your child help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/reading-with-your-little-ones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading with your Little Ones!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6950,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6950"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/primary1asession20212022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}