While the holidays can be stressful and frantic for many moms and dads, spending time reading together is a great reason to turn off the television, cuddle up, and relax.To make reading a part of your holiday traditions, try some of these fun literacy activities:
*Encourage your child to create bookmarks to enclose in a gift book or to mark the place in your own book where you leave off during read-aloud time.
*Ask your child to help with holiday shopping. Have him or her write out the list and then read the items aloud as you peruse the aisles together.
*Give your child a companion book to traditional holiday gifts, such as a book on juggling and several brightly colored balls; a book about fossils and a bag of plaster of Paris; or a book about stamp collecting and a stamp album.
*When it's time for holiday baking, ask your child to read the directions aloud to you. While the cookies are in the oven, read a short book together.
*Suggest that your childs teacher turn the classroom holiday gift exchange into a book exchange.
*Help your child make his or her own holiday gifts for family and friends by following the directions in a how-to-book.
*Ask your child to help you write out gift nametags. Use extra large gift tags for tiny hands!
*Encourage your child to volunteer to read to residents in a local retirement home or hospital.
*Give a bookstore gift certificate as a holiday present so your child can select a new book on his or her own. Read the book together.
*Visit the library and pick out some holiday favorites for festive family reading all season long.
*These tips were provided from Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and are not the original ideas of Peta-Gay Lewis.
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