Reading Activities With A Pre-Schooler
by Peter Neumeyer, Ph.D.
Here are some ideas for reading activities with your pre-schooler:
- Besides looking at illustrations together, or having the child repeat
refrains, you can get wonderful, active participation by having him or
her draw characters or scenes from the story, or draw or paint scenes in
which the characters moved to other worlds or other stories which the
child may want to tell you about.
- Always, always, always, keep paper, crayons, paint in the kitchen and
in other rooms where the child may be. Wonderful, spontaneous little
pictures come in odd moments.
- Do I have to stress that there is no one correct way for the child to
paint or draw? The point is to encourage active, spontaneous
participation, unhampered and uncensored. Activity is the purpose, not
judgment.
- You can also encourage the child to tell you stories of his or her
own, connected with characters from the book (such as, "Tell me why
Peter Rabbit's father was put in a pie by Mr. MacGregor?").
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Last modified: Oct 24, 1995