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The Ages 6-8 From your Local and Idaho’s Read to Me Program ◊ April, 2009

SummerSummer ReadingReading of the Month Repeated studies show that over the summer Look! Look! Look! By months most children lose some of the Nancy Elizabeth gains they made throughout the school year. Wallace You can help prevent this set-back! This lovable mouse family SIX EASY WAYS TO GET YOUR KIDS TO borrows a postcard READ THIS SUMMER showing a famous painting, and as they 1. Get your child a library card at your local carefully study the portrait, they see public library. It’s free! And many patterns, colors, lines, and shapes. They have offer free summer cards for those who live so much fun that they decide to create their out of the district. own pictures. This art adventure will inspire children to Be Creative! 2. Keep a list on the refrigerator of the everyone has read during the summer. 3. Encourage your child to read every day. Check out some more books to help your Take advantage of “waiting” time to share child be creative: books: on trips, at the doctor’s office, in line Lester Fizz, Bubble Gum Artist, at the grocery store. Ruth Spiro 4. Set a good example: read on your own and Little Rat Makes Music, Monika talk to your child about what you’re reading. Bang-Campbell 5. Have books everywhere – in the car, in front Hip Hop Speaks to Children with CD: A of the TV, in the kitchen, on the porch... Celebration of Poetry with a Beat, Nikki 6. Sign your child up for this year’s summer Giovanni reading program. When children read what Purple, Green, Yellow, Robert Munsch they enjoy, they learn to love reading and “Be Creative @ Your Library” Illustrator: become better readers. DAVID CATROW has been chosen to provide Be Creative @ Your Library the artwork for the 2009 summer reading This year’s summer reading theme is theme. Look for his artwork in other books, all about getting creative! Check out such as: your local library’s summer calendar I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More, Karen for free children’s programs on arts Beaumont and crafts, music, dance, drama, storytimes and more. Get your Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School creative kid signed up today! Songs, and Take Me Out of the Bathtub, Kevin Katz 6 Early Literacy Skills More fun with Look! Look! Look! Each month has featured one Print Awareness/vocabulary: Show your child of the 6 early literacy skills that help your the “glossary” in the back of the book. A glos- child become a reader: sary explains the meaning of certain words Print Awareness (using books): As used in the book. you read with your child ask him to Around the house: Cut a frame out point out the front and back covers, of a cereal box– help your child look title, author and illustrator. Have him point to for patterns, shapes, colors, and the beginning and ending of a sentence, as lines, like the mice did in the story. well as punctuation such as periods and Arts and crafts: Recycled art: help your child question marks. cut shapes out of magazines, food boxes, used Print Motivation (loving books): Find wrapping , postcards, junk mail, etc. Glue books that match your child’s onto the backs of old school to create interests and share them often. new masterpieces! Encourage her to write notes and e-mails, or Print Motivation: Traveling ask her to write a caption on her artwork. this summer? Let your child Dear Sam, Having a gr Letter Knowledge (ABC’s): Point out write postcards or letters eat time at Grandma’s. letters and have your child name and send them to friends Wish you were here! them. Play games like “I Spy” to help and relatives! We could catch bugs and him learn the sounds that go with the letters. go to Make an with your child. What your library can do for you… Vocabulary (words): Talk with your Did your child like the books he/she received child about what is going on in the this year? How can we make the Read to Me story, teach her the meaning of new First Book program better? Be sure to fill out words, and ask her lots of questions about her your First Book Parent Survey and return it world. Build words by reading information to your child’s teacher or local librarian! books together. Phonological Awareness (sounds): Sing songs, play games and share rhymes to help your child hear and play with the smaller sounds in words. Ask if two words rhyme, or clap syllables in words. Listen for words that have the same beginning or ending sound. Narrative Skills (storytelling): Tell stories together, and encourage pretend play. Help your child learn order: beginning, middle, ending. Ask him to Funding for this project is made possible by the Idaho Commission for Libraries’ Read to Me re-tell or act out the story. Have him tell you program, and the U.S. Institute of Museum and about a picture he drew, or ask what is Library Services under a provision of the happening in the pictures of a book. Library Services and Technology Act.