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Learning to Read
What's This Character Thinking?
Season 2025
Episode 17
By holding a thought bubble over characters' heads while reading together, you give your child a chance to interact with stories. Demonstrating that they can put themselves in the characters' shoes proves to children that they can follow the a story's plot.
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Practice prepositions with your child by visually representing them with cups and erasers.
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Pairing simple words with their opposites is an easy way to increase a child's vocabulary.
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Ask a child to guess what will happen next when reading together to practice foreshadowing
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Connect speech to the written word to help kids feel more comfortable reading and writing.
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Kids can practice ordering events in a story by telling their parents about their day.
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Make sure your kids can recall important family information by creating a family song.
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Posing as letter shapes while practicing letter sounds is an active and engaging activity.
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English as a second language students can practice by reading books about their culture.
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Practicing with compound words is an easy way for a child to expand their vocabulary.