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America Reads Challenge: Ready*Set*Read for Caregivers - April 1997

TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS
FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

  • Talk with children as you play and do daily activities together.

  • Read with children at a regular time every day and when they ask you.

  • Take toddlers and preschoolers to the library so that they can choose books to read. Find out about your library's special books and services.

  • Create a special place in your child care facility for reading and writing for toddlers and preschoolers.

  • Keep books and other reading materials where children can reach them. Add new books as children's skills and interests change.

  • Keep writing materials such as washable, nontoxic crayons and markers, paints and brushes, and different kinds of paper where children can reach them.

  • Show children how you read and write every day to have fun and to get things done.

  • Point out to children the printed words at child care and in the community.

  • Encourage children to do things for themselves when they are ready. Let them feed and dress themselves, and clean up after themselves, even if these tasks take more time and are not done perfectly.

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