Talking to Children about Reading

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of Expert Village, and we'll be looking at how to teach a child to read using big books and read alouds. We're coming to the end of the book in our book talk. We're at a point if you remember the last session, today my little sister had a candy cane of her very own. Turn the page. So I said, me too! How do you think it's going to end? That's the first step in our book talk before we turn the page and we ask our children for their predictions. Does it end happy? Guess what my little sister said? You too! So did the book end happy? Yes it did. And that makes a wonderful book read. We did everything we needed to do but now we haven't finished our book read. Another important part of reading to your child is talking about the book. Take a minute and go back through the book and think about a few questions and say something as similar as, what season, when do you think this happened? Because that was one of the things I picked up. If you notice, he played baseball, he went snowing and then you can guide the children into saying something as simple, because setting is very important, I guess this happened in a year because there was the snow season, there was the fishing season, there was baseball, go back to those pages that you're pointing and asking questions about the book. Example, oh it's snowing here, and that helps. Book talks. You talk about what you read. It's like a summary and that the children can talk to you with it. We're going to go back and do a little more about book talks in the next session. "