Using Your Local Library for Reading Activities

Video Transcript

" Hi, I am Debbie with ExpertVillage.com and we are talking about reading with young children and cultivating their love for reading. We are in a library, which is one of the best places for you to take your children, any opportunity that you have to select their own books. Your local public libraries offer so many cool programs also like Story times for Kids, the feature authors; they have summer reading programs where the kids can get prizes for how many minutes and the books that they read. Your public library is one of the best places that you can take your kids to cultivate that love of reading. When you go to the library, show your kids around, teach them how to select a book, teach them how to find the books that are on their reading level, teach them how to find books of their favorite authors, teach them how to find books of their favorite interests. Lots of kids like the science books so show them where the science books are. Lots of kids like books about famous people so show them where the biographies are. Those are books that your kids are not going to be able to read but they are certainly books that you are going to be able to read to them and talk about the pictures and the illustrations building lots of vocabulary. Now when you go to the library you also want them to go to the easy reader section and that is where they are going to find the books that they are going to be able to read and the books that you are going to need to be reading to them over and over and over. It is really important that your kids pick their own books and do it often and you pick books while they are there too and show them how important it is that we are all reading together. "