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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

You might be reading to your kids all wrong!

Reading aloud to our kids every day is one of the best tools we have to prepare them for school...

It’s a great way to teach and bond – and the Pediatricians of Reach Out and Read have some coaching advice for the storyteller:

• Work on your voices. You can really make the story come alive by creating different voices for different characters. Don’t be shy – throw some sound effects in there too.

• Share the page turning. It’s fun for the child to turn the pages – and gives them something to look forward to on every page while you’re perfecting your sound effects.

• Ask questions. Challenge the listener by asking them to guess what might happen next.

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