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Benefits of Rereading the Same Book | Learning to Read | NPT

Season 2021 Episode 21

Continue to encourage learning reading skills by rereading your child's favorite books. Rereading helps children understand the stories better, learn new words, and find things they may have not noticed before. Keep it interesting by reading the story in a different voice or have conversations about your child's favorite pictures.

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Performance Story Time
1:04
Watching a story performed transforms text into an engaging multisensory experience.
Using Sensory Elements in Story
1:04
This activity brings deeper engagement with a book with sensory elements and role playing.
Identifying Common Contractions
1:04
This activity focuses on learning the predictable patterns used in common contractions.
Sight Words
1:04
This fun activity teaches and reinforces common sight words to build reading fluency.
Authors and Illustrators
1:04
This activity highlights the work that an author and illustrator do to build appreciation.
Mystery Inferencing
1:04
This activity practices drawing conclusions based on evidence within a story.
Dictionary Word Roulette
1:04
To build vocabulary, an adult and child can use a dictionary to find a new word to learn.
Letter Writing
1:04
This activity helps a child express their fondness for someone by writing them a letter.
Reading with Intonation
1:04
This activity demonstrates the importance of tone in reading to convey various emotions.
Assisted Storytelling
1:04
This activity helps children create a story using a character and setting from a book.\
Comparing and Contrasting 2 Texts
1:04
To recognize story elements, a child reads two books noting similarities and differences.
Completing the Lyric
1:04
Young readers can practice spelling by learning the lyrics to their favorite songs.
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