I came across this article that I want to share with you. It gives good ideas for parents and teachers as to what to do when your child has to stay home because of illness.
Check it out.
Speaking and reading are so obviously connected, that it almost seems unnecessary to write this post. However sometimes the obvious has to be emphasized.
We want our children to be good readers, but at times we get too busy to listen to our children talk. Converstion builds vocabulary and when vocabulary is expanded reading comprehension grows too. Here are some tidbits of advice:
Remember the more conversations that you have with your child, the greater his/her vocabulary will be and the bigger the vocabulary the better the reader your child will be. A bonus to all of this is also that your child will feel loved and valued as a person by you. This will go a long way to empowering your child to do well.
I just read an article from the Detroit Free Press where Dr. Danny Brassell, associate professor at California State University-Dominguez Hills, suggests that parents help their child make a school year scrapbook.
One way to do this is to buy a three-ring binder that your child can add pages to during the year. These pages may be stories that your child has written during the school year, math papers, hand writing papers, awards, art pictures, photos or whatever your child wishes to remember for the school year.
Making a scrapbook may have many purposes:
Let me know if you try this and how it works for you.