Create A Home Full of Fun Literacy Experiences
You can create experiences right in your own home to support your child's literacy development. Literacy experiences can improve your child's reading skills, comprehension, and language skills. They can also increase your child's interest in reading, improve their attitude towards reading, and support their overall ability to focus on reading and learning.
What experiences can you create?
All children will enjoy taking turns reading jokes to the family from a silly joke book or from a clean joke site like this one- https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/g28581033/best-jokes-for-kids/
Jokes can give you the opportunity to explain "play on words" or puns that your child wouldn't understand on their own. Your conversations about language will help them to better understand the next time a pun or idiom is heard, such as "Break a leg!" or "Once in a blue moon!" Kids often don't understand the language of idioms and need adult support to understand the nuances of confusing language. You may find it fun to search for idioms or puns and take turns trying to explain them to each other.
More ideas for creating Fun Literacy Experiences at home are coming in the next Literacy Minute.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at bowerm@muschools.com
Hope you have a "punny" time with these ideas!
Mary Bower,
M-U Literacy Coach