Five fun summer reading tips for children

(NC)—Don’t let your child’s reading comprehension fall behind his or her classmates this summer, especially when there’s lots of opportunity for them to not only maintain but improve their reading skills. Here are five simple tips to make reading fun and keep your child engaged through the summer months.

Set aside time to read together as a family and enjoy reading out loud in character voices with your children. Visiting the library or participating in a summer reading program can be a lot of fun for children.

Visit your local library and let children pick out materials they are interested in reading.  Comic books, magazines, even baseball or hockey cards will help kids improve their reading skills.

Encourage your children to read anything and everything – street signs, menus, recipes and books are all great tools to strengthen literacy skills.

Let your kids see you read so they know that reading is important and that it can be an enjoyable pastime.  A great way to do this is to turn the TV off and enjoy a good book.

Help your children discover their passion for reading by visiting your local library and signing up for a summer of reading fun. The award-winning program offers a wide range of reading choices, as well as lots of fun-filled activities to keep children engaged. Last year, more than 250,000 children participated and read an estimated two million books.  This year’s theme is LOL (Laughing out Loud) and promises to be filled with fun books kids will love. You can obtain more information online at www.td-club-td.ca.

-News Canada

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According to Reach Out and Read, a national non-profit that promotes early literacy, exposure to books and reading in the first years of life increases the probability of healthy child development and decreases the chance of school failure. Realizing they could serve parents and children seeking a good start on the road to learning, the same people who brought us Highlights for Children decided it was time to create a magazine just for preschoolers and their parents.

Highlights High Five, which is based on sound educational principles and widely accepted child-development theories, addresses not only literacy skills, but also social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. The magazine is filled with read-aloud stories, activities, and bright illustrations.

“Highlights High Five is designed to be used in any early-childhood setting, but especially in the home with parents, a child’s first and most important teachers,” says editor Christine French Clark.

Each issue of the magazine will contain stories and poems designed to develop pre-reading skills; puzzles and games, like “My First Hidden Pictures,” that help develop cognitive skills; ideas for fun, physical activities; a Spanish lesson; and a special tear-out section that contains an activity parents can do with their children. The tear-out in the premiere issue features 12 finger-puppet characters parents can cut out and tape together, then use to accompany a story called “Animal Talk,” in which little ones learn the sounds animals make.

“These early years when learning and fun go hand in hand are so important. We hope that our monthly mix of read-aloud stories and poems and age-appropriate puzzles and activities will help adults set young children gently but firmly on the path toward becoming lifelong learners,” adds Clark.

The first issue of Highlights High Five started showing up on newsstands and in subscribers’ mailboxes in early December. If you’d like to view a sample of the material you’ll find in Highlights High Five, log on to www.Highlights.com. You can subscribe for a one-year subscription, which costs just $2.47 per issue, on the Web site or by calling (800) 472-7038.

Courtesy of ARA Content

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