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Tickle the Funny Bone To Encourage Reading
Parents often take their children’s reading seriously.
Sometimes, treat your child to the lighter side of reading to get her excited about it. Create a “Funny Reading” night.
Gather funny resources—a joke book, a story told in riddles, and comic books—and small sheets of paper. Before your fun night, ask your child to bookmark a funny part of a book she’s reading. Share how you’re marking places in your books.
On Funny Reading night:
Read the marked paragraphs to one another.
Take turns reading jokes.
Help your child read the riddle story or comics to you.
Play a word game. On separate sheets of paper, have your child write a word from the funny resources. Ask her to place each sheet in a row on the floor. Then help her rearrange the words to make a funny sentence. Fill in words like a, to, of, and the. For example, “The purple cat skipped into the flying backpack.”
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