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Reading and Learning during the Holidays |
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 This coming holidays, add some new activities for your family that will make meaningful memories and strengthen foundations for reading and learning success.
Listen, laugh, learn
- Listen to audio books while you're traveling on short trips, wrapping gifts, or having weekend cooking sessions.
- Lyrics to songs can be fun to read and sing together when you're on a road trip. It is also good fun and good collaborative writing practice to make up your own lyrics to familiar tunes.
- Start a story-telling tradition by revisiting holidays of the past. Old family photographs at holiday gatherings will help prompt stories about your own life and family traditions.
Read, relax, respond
- Put reading and writing skills to practical use. Plan meals by reading cookbooks together, writing the shopping lists and finding the needed items at the store by reading signs and labels. Read the recipe and cook together. During the simmering and baking, kids can write and decorate menus or place cards for special get-togethers.
- Get the older kids to work on a personal or family blog. With more time to spare, they can spend a few minutes posting an entry on a family outing, captioning photos, or just penning their thoughts online.
- Set aside time just for reading. Curl up on the couch together and read aloud an old favorite or check out books on topics that the children enjoy.
Do you have other tips on reading and learning during the hols? Do share with us.
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