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Discover MoreReading to your child has a number of benefits including helping your child’s language and literacy skills to develop. Before your child is able to read and write by themselves, they must have a number of precursory literacy skills. Some of these include:
One way to support these prerequisite skills for reading and writing to develop is through shared book reading. Shared book reading is an interactive activity between a parent/caregiver and a child. The adult guides the reading in a way that encourages the child to join in and share in the experience. Shared book reading does not involve your child reading the words but sharing a conversation about the story.
You can start shared book reading with your child as soon as they will sit and look at pages of a book with you. For young children, this doesn’t mean they have to sit through a whole story, but they might share just a couple of pages at a time with you.
The Murat Reader Series was written to support parents/caregivers in shared book reading. Murat Goes Shopping consists of 10 picture pages which tell the story. Following each of the picture pages are instructions for you (parent/caregiver) including suggestions for things to talk more about and ideas for follow-up activities, many of which focus on listening. The additional activities allow you to extend the topic of the story through play to continue to develop your child’s vocabulary and language skills based around the topic of the story.
At the end of the resource, there are also black and white drawings of the main characters and objects in the story and the key events.
Print these materials out and cut and colour them with your child. Download them now.
While reading the story to your child and talking about the pictures
More ideas for shared book reading are included in Murat Goes Shopping and the other stories from the Murat Reader Series.
Murat Goes Shopping is available in 13 different languages including German, Russian, Spanish and Tamil. Murat’s Birthday Present, Murat Goes on a Picnic, and Murat Rides a Pony are available in English. This series is available for free download.
Looking for more rehab activities you can do at home with your child? The “Rehab At Home” series provides rehab videos and easy activities like craft activities or board games for your aural rehab sessions at home.
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