December 1st, 2009 by El Ed Mom

My Picture Story
Allow your child to draw and color anything he or she wants.  When finished, as your child to tell you about his or her picture.  Write your child’s story and then read it hack to him or her. Lots of suggested picture books that parents can use with their preshool childen to encourage literacy are  in Preschool Books Listed by Themes.

Newspaper Fun
Parents read a newspaper comic strip to your preschool child.  Point to each frame as you read the words.  Talk about  the message or funny story with your child.  Next, ask your youngster to choose a colorful comic strip and tell you about the pictures.  Let him or her make up a story to match the actions in the frames or ask if he or she can guess what the comic strip is about by looking at the pictures.

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