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Reading to Children

Reading to Children
photo by: hypertypos
By J.J Beaty
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Some tips on what to do before, during, and after reading a book to your child.

Before Reading

  1. Read book to yourself. First, you must read the book yourself looking at the cover of the book and deciding how to introduce the story, looking for interesting words or phrases to emphasize (“word tricks”), and deciding how to get the children involved in the story the second time through.
  2. Read book aloud to yourself. Once you have made your determinations, you will need to read the book aloud ahead of time to see how it goes and how it sounds. If you wait to read it aloud until you are with the children, you may stumble over words and forget to play your word tricks.
  3. Note funny incidents. For example, if you plan to start with the book Silly Sally (Wood, 1992, San Diego: Harcourt), you instantly notice a funny-looking, orange-haired young woman on the white cover sailing through the air upside down. Yellow flowers (buttercups) are scattered through the air and litter the yellow ground at the base of the cover. As you read through the book you see this same girl walking upside down along a path winding through a yellow buttercup field with a Medieval English town in the background. The rhyming text on the first two open pages tells you that Silly Sally went to town walking backwards, upside down. On the next two pages she meets a silly pig and they dance a jig. Then the two of them go to town dancing backwards, upside down. The story continues with Sally meeting a dog, a loon, and a sheep, and finally falling asleep. They are rescued by the forward-walking Neddy Buttercup, who tickles them all awake and they finally get to town.
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