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Parents Iman Solomon and Terri James Solomon suggest you:
- Encourage young children to hold and look through books
- Ask questions and discuss books when reading aloud
- Start reading to children from birth
- When reading aloud, try changing voices for different characters
- Choose books that reflect your child's interests
- Don't overlook nonfiction books, especially for boys
- Enable children to make books
- Maintain regular contact with teachers
- Approach teachers as partners
- Create opportunities to show appreciation to teachers
- Recognize teachers have children's best interest at heart
- Become familiar with educational benchmarks and talk with teachers about your child's progress
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Like Adam Schwartz and Michele McDonald-Schwartz:
- Attend school meetings
- Remember, a book can't be too easy
- Introduce a wide variety of books
- Use reading strategies that support your child's learning style
- Read aloud books that are above your child's reading level
- Occasionally check your child's comprehension
- Help uneasy readers by starting with simple versions of books, then advance to the next level, or introduce the story as a movie to see and hear before reading
- If your child needs help writing, ask questions – Who? What? Where? – get rough ideas onto paper together, then revise
- Enable children to verbalize their ideas before writing
- Remember, learning to write and having fun go together
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Laurie Joy Haas, Executive Producer of Words that Cook!™ and co-author of Read it Aloud! A parent's guide to sharing books with young children, and Honey the Cookie-Bookie Bear suggest that you:
- Encourage children to write with writing boxes
- Don’t tell children when or how to use their writing boxes
- Over time, add exciting new items: stencils, chalk and rulers
- Choose personalized gifts like favorite stamps and stickers ... even books about art
- Add only safe, age-appropriate writing tools
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Literacy Consultant Dr. Miriam Marecek suggests you:
- Consider observing your child in the classroom
- Talk to the teacher about any literacy concerns
- If you meet with the principal, include the teacher
- Help teachers understand children's emotions
- Let children know you and the teacher talk to each other
- Read a favorite book to your child's class
- Share special occasions with your child at school
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Dad Craig Ross recommends you:
- Remember, fantasy play is storytelling
- Consider testing to understand your child's needs
- Become aware of your child's learning style
- Be proactive in supporting your child's education
- Learn the language from testing in order to communicate
- Meet with teachers at the start of each school year
- Continue to meet face-to-face on complex issues
- Be involved in your school system and local politics
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