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# How to Read with Preschoolers

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 Published:  September 7, 2021

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### **Easy Tips to Share with Families**

Reading each day is one of the BEST brain builders around! It also promotes a love of books, and most importantly, nurtures loving bonds between caregivers and children. Plus, families can use children’s books, magazines, newspapers, or e-books they already have!

### **Selecting the Right Book**

 

There are so many books to choose from. What should you suggest to families for selecting one? Just about any book with content appropriate for preschoolers can become a wonderful tool to build skills and foster positive connections. Below are some ideas you can suggest to families for selecting books:

 

### Read from a variety of book types:

 

- Story books that have characters and a plot
- Concept books, such as alphabet, counting, color and shape books
- Informational books on people, history, science, nature, building, machines, etc.
- Predictable books with repetition in words, phrases, or sentences that children can start to guess and fill in
- **Explore different topics. **Choose books with topics that interest your child.
- **Practice repetition**. Read the same book repeatedly, emphasizing different features each time—vocabulary words, rhyming words, or beginning sounds.

 

### **Getting the Most Out of Reading Time**

 

Share these five tips with families to get the most out of reading at home with preschoolers:

 

- **Make it FUN for you *and* your child. **There's no need to read every word or finish the book all at once. Have your child participate in telling the story, making comments, asking and answering questions, and turning pages.
- **Be expressive!** Use lots of expression in your face and voice for different characters, actions, and emotions.
- **Nurture conversation.** Talk about the meaning of a few interesting words in the book.
- **Provoke curiosity.** Ask questions that start with *why, what, *or *how.*
- **Take notice, together.** Point out words and letters as you read—count them, and note words that rhyme (*hat, cat*) or start with the same letter (*duck, down*).

 

As you and the families you serve continue to navigate at-home learning, we will share resources you can send to families to continue quality learning at home.

 

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