Barbara Bush's Family Reading Tips

1. Establish a routine for reading aloud.

2. Make reading together a special time.

3. Try these simple ways to enrich reading aloud with your children:

a. Move you finger under the words as you read.

b. Let your child help turn the pages.

c. Take turns reading words, sentences or pages.

d. Pause and ask open-ended questions such as, "How would you feel if you were that person?" or "What do you think might happen next?"

e. Look at the illustrations and talk about them.

f. Change your voice as you read different characters' words. Let you child make up voices.

g. Keep stories alive by acting them out.

4. Ask others who take care of you children to read aloud.

5. Visit the library regularly.

6. Let your children see you reading

7. Read all kinds of this together.

8. Fill you home with opportunities for reading.

9. Keep reading aloud even after your children learn to read.