Give the gift of reading. Your child is surrounded by books, but just doesn’t want to read. (Don’t worry – we’re working on that.) In Toronto, there are thousands of kids who love to read, but can’t afford books of their own. Fortunately, the Children’s Book Bank gives free books […]
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Literacy is more than reading
Have you taught your child how to read a newspaper? I don’t mean the words themselves. I mean how a newspaper works. What a headline is. Where the author’s name is, and how to tell what’s happening in the pictures. Where does the rest of the article go off the […]
Read to your child every night
Every night? Every night. Reading to your child could be the single most important thing you do to turn your child into a great reader. And if for some reason you “can’t” read to your child every night, forthwith are my reasons why, in fact, you can. *He’s too tired. […]
Share your favourite book
What was your favourite book as a child? What were the books that soothed you, that made you laugh, that were your friends? One great idea that will help your child (and you), is to revisit them at the library, and then share them with your child. Your child will […]
Learning to read the signs
One of the first words my son learned to read was “Stop.” He didn’t learn it from a book, but from the neighbourhood stop signs. When I was an ESL tutor, I learned that one of the biggest motivators for new readers is relevance. People are more apt to want […]
