Parent+Activities

= = =Activities that Parents Can Do at Home to Help Develop Children's Literacy=

= = =Questions to Support Your Child's Learning=
 * Read books and tell stories to your children.
 * Ask your children to tell you what they learned in school each day.
 * Provide reading and writing materials ( pencils, paper, pens, crayons, markers) in a specific place accessible to children.
 * Draw pictures, write stories, and write lists together.
 * Share your values, your religion, your experiences at work and your daily activities with your children.
 * Listen to your children and ask them questions about what happened at school, on the bus, and in the playground.
 * Listen to their dreams about the future, their opinions, their fears, and anything else.
 * Convert daily activities into learning opportunities (i.e. watch for the mail together, sort the clean clothes, cook together).
 * Expand your children's world by exploring the community (i.e. go to the zoo, observe nature, travel on the train or bus using maps and street signs).
 * Attend events at school, at the library, and in the community.

Math

 * Show me your book. What page did you look at today?
 * Read this part to me. (Point to a particular section on that page.)
 * Tell me in your own words what that means.
 * Let me see your homework. Read this part to me. Tell me what you did to get that answer. (First, second, next, ext.)

Science

 * Show me your book. What page did you look at today?
 * Read this part to me. Explain to me what it means.
 * Tell me more about (the topic of the lesson).

Social Studies

 * What topic did you work on in social studies today?
 * Show me your (paper, worksheet, map, book).
 * Let me see your homework. Read this part to me.
 * Tell me more about (the topic of the lesson).

Reading

 * What book/story are you reading?
 * Tell me about something that happened in the story.
 * Show me your book. What page did you read today? Read this part to me. (Child reads.) Tell me (in your own words) what you just read.
 * Let me see your homework. Read this part to me.
 * Tell me more about ___ (the topic of the story or a character in the story.)
 * Tell me what you think might happen next.

//Also, talk with your child and share what you know about these school subjects (in your native language if that is more frequently spoken)//.