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By the Book

Get Your Child Reading This Summer

By Heather V. Long

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"The first book I ever read to anyone was Happiness is a Warm Puppy by Charles Schultz," says Rohan. "I remember reading to my dad in his big black reclining chair and him being blown away by it. And now I love to read Guess How Much I Love You to my children."

"Go with the child's interests," says Maxson. "Once you have done that, you can find books with a similar theme or plot to bring them back to reading, whether their interest is mystery, skating, biography or sports. The best thing you can do is share that interest together in the literature, finding it, reading it and talking about it. By sharing it together, the parent has some knowledge of what the child is reading, and it's a bit different than watching the television together. When my daughter was in fourth grade, she was reading Judy Blume. She asked a lot of questions, but I knew what she was reading and what contexts Blume used, so I could answer those questions and share those experiences."

Share the Experience
"I love the snuggling and the closeness that we share when we are reading together," says Rohan. "I love trying to get across the language, the rhythm and the sound of it. I love trying to use different voices for different characters to help the stories come alive. I think reading has helped my kids to develop their vocabularies and their understanding of the world. It has given them a framework to understand certain situations and help develop their imaginations."


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