SENECA SCHOOL

KINDERGARTEN

MRS. MICHELE ARATARI

OCTOBER

FUN WITH READING

How do children learn to…

…talk

…walk

…ride a bike

…play with friends?

The answer is easy.  Children learn to talk and wanting to talk just like Mom, Dad, brothers, sisters, and everyone they know.  In other words in the early years, children learn because

• They want to learn.
• They have fun learning.
• They enjoy what they do (in the process of learning).
• They want to be like others.
• They can see what the new knowledge can do for them.
• They persist.
• They practice.
• They have people to support, encourage and praise them.
• They make mistakes and learn from them.
• They have expectations that they will be successful learners.

Children learn about reading when parents…

• Make reading a book together an enjoyable experience.
• Read loved stories again and again.
• Make the reading memorable.
• Talk about books.
• Encourage children to join in the favorite chants and rhymes and enjoy saying words together loudly, softly, scarily!
• Discuss the story read.
• Ask children to predict or work out what a story is going to be about.
• Ask children to work out the words in a sentence.
• Talk about letters of the alphabet as they appear and make meaning in a story.
• Talk about the make-up of books themselves, and the conventions of sequence to be followed when reading.
• Let children play with books.

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