https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:12:15 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2324211 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 10:46:13 +0000 808love 2324211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: I think it said to read the book for enjoyment the first time. Good point, though. eta: I can't find that part now. Must have been another article. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2324068 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:48:47 +0000 Mama Bird 2324068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do something similar... DS has kind of forced us to because it's impossible to keep his attention on the book otherwise. I'm slowly trying to move from paraphrasing the story to actually reading, but that only works once he's read the book "his way" several times. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323995 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:05:25 +0000 blackbird 2323995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do this, too, and I had no idea it was a method! She just really loves to tell us about everything, so we let her! When she wants to be read to, she will bring me a book and sit in my lap and act sort of expectant about it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323984 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 20:55:22 +0000 matador84 2323984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I skimmed the article but basically this is what I am thinking. When reading to children, especially those that are preschool or younger school age, it is so important to build that "reading for pleasure" or "reading for enjoyment." I think part of being a good parent and reading with your child is sharing the reading with them (ironically this IS a reading technique called shared reading), where you might ask them the same types of questions as the process in the article.</p> <p>If one relied too much on the dialogic style of reading, I feel like it would take the pleasure out of reading in some ways. Doing a pure read aloud and just reading to your child without pausing and asking questions allows them to let the story play out in their mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323888 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:39:58 +0000 autumnlove 2323888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do a lot of this but not for every page, etc! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323883 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:35:47 +0000 pregnantbee 2323883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@honeybear: Fair enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323880 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:32:30 +0000 honeybear 2323880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pregnantbee: I have no problem with asking questions/pausing for discussion once and a while. :) </p> <p>But this writer specifically recommends 'every page' or nearly every page, which is major overkill in my view. I think the 'PEER' sequence is unnecessary jargon for 'discuss the book' and it's silly, in my opinion, to recommend doing it on every page of a picture book. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323877 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:21:40 +0000 HLK208 2323877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've always done this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323870 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:58:49 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2323870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, we do all of this already. It's how I've always read to them! I didn't know it was a "thing," I just did it because it got them more engaged and excited to read. If I were to just read straight through, they'd lose interest. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323862 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:56:01 +0000 pregnantbee 2323862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@honeybear: I don't think I'd do it for every page, but once in awhile sounds reasonable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323748 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:01:28 +0000 .twist. 2323748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@honeybear: I kind of found that part bizarre too. We talk about the books we read and sometimes we stop and talk about certain pages. I really try to follow L's lead while reading books. He's obsessed with them, so I'm really not worried about it. I don't think it's at all necessary to break down every single page. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323737 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:48:02 +0000 honeybear 2323737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it's a good idea to engage with a child while reading and help them think about the content occasionally, but this seems extreme. I don't think it actually helps a child to understand a book if you stop and interrogate them about it on every page or nearly every page, and frankly, it's kind of disrespectful to the author (who probably didn't intend to write a textbook full of quizzes). </p> <p>This suggestion strikes me as downright bizarre: "For many books, you should do less and less reading of the written words in the book each time you read it. Leave more to the child." Don't read the book, just ask questions about it? I tend to think you "leave the book to the child" when you close it and they run off to play and experiment with the new ideas/words/characters that they've just heard about, or have heard about for the 500th time.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323639 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:47:36 +0000 JoJoGirl 2323639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: It definitely makes it more fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323618 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:35:56 +0000 mediagirl 2323618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: I didn't either! We read SO many books to our lo at night that we tend to just breeze through them. This makes me think that we should try slowing down and asking questions as we go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323617 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:33:37 +0000 fancyfunction 2323617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do a lot of this too - didn't realize it was a method. We'll ask her to point out certain items or ask her where a character is and let her finish sentences too since many books in her heavy rotation are memorized. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323596 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:13:17 +0000 JoJoGirl 2323596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OH my, ha ha. I had no idea this was a 'thing' - this is always how we've read to our LO! Mostly because sitting and listening to a book without any interaction is kind of boring :) Gotta send this to my DH! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323592 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:11:15 +0000 pregnantbee 2323592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOVE this article! Early literacy is so important, and the article really highlights easy things we can do to help. We also pause at different parts of the story for our 3 yo to fill in the blanks. At this point, he can recite almost entire books! I'm looking forward to trying some of the other techniques. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/effective-ways-to-read-to-preschoolers#post-2323587 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:09:40 +0000 mediagirl 2323587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A friend sent me this article today and we thought we would share it here. It's a fascinating article on how to engage your kids during the reading process. </p> <p>It's called Dialogic Reading: "When most adults share a book with a preschooler, they read and the child listens. In dialogic reading, the adult helps the child become the teller of the story. The adult becomes the listener, the questioner, the audience for the child."</p> <p><a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/article/dialogic-reading-effective-way-read-preschoolers" rel="nofollow">http://www.readingrockets.org/article/dialogic-reading-effective-way-read-preschoolers</a></p> <p>Do you use any of these techniques already? We stop before the end of most sentences that she knows and ones that rhyme to see if she wants to fill in the blank and finish the sentence for us. </p>