Anywho, my paper today was about what made me the reader that I am today? Plain and simple, my mom. I'll attach the autobiography later if anyone who reads cares to read it, but that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is to really put focus on how Ryan and I read together. We read interactively, and up until now I was unaware that there was a name for the way we read with one another, but as it turns out, its the most affective way to read to children.
When you read with your child(ren) do you read and they sit there quietly or do you make them part of the adventure?? Ryan is part of our reading adventure. He's three now and he knows words to his favorite books. He knows how I read them in silly voices and he follows along. I try to trick him on words he knows by throwing in the wrong word here and there and see if he catches me. He ALWAYS does. I ask him to find things in the pictures that I know he doesn't know what the word means yet. For example, with Itsy Bitsy Spider, I had him find the spout. He had no idea what the meaning of the word was, what a spout was, he just knew it went with the book. So we found the spout and now he knows. A new word added to his vocabulary.
I want him to always love to read. I want him to continue to build his already HUGE imagination. <3
