Suspended Due to Books are Gems being Closed on Saturdays!
"Read to Me!" Parent Story Time Classes
Parents will have an opportunity to engage with other parents and educators to learn fun and easy ways to create Story Time at home.
Story Time Parent Component (Bilingual)
9:45-10:30 am
4th Saturday of each month
(starting in February)
Books Are GEMS Conference Room
A volunteer will work with parents each training session to help parents understand the successful strategies readers and story tellers use to enrich and involve children in the oral reading of a story. Some strategies and tips which will be used with parents are the following:
- Telling children family history through storytelling
- Telling interesting stories of individual family members through storytelling
- Reading to children to encourage bonding experiences between adult and child
- Bedtime story telling or reading a story from a book
- Selection of a book for the child or children
- Basic components of a book (reading the print left to right on each page, front cover, back cover, spine, author, illustrator, title page, index and/or table of contents)
- Voice intonation for characters
- Punctuation
- Using illustrations to understand text
- Using illustrations to predict what will happen next
- Encouraging imagination for character development and/or next steps or sequels
- Enhancing a story through activities or costumes
Each session will focus on one or two strategies to assist parents with storytelling or reading a book to a child/children. The volunteer instructor will demonstrate various strategies being discussed on a particular morning using a book which will be used later that morning with the bookstore’s regularly scheduled story time beginning at 10:30 am. This will allow the instructor the opportunity to present the strategy, practice the strategy with parents in small groups or one-on-one, discuss strategy
with parents and answer questions. Then parents will go and observe that same
strategy(s) which have been shared at the regular story time with children by volunteers.
with parents and answer questions. Then parents will go and observe that same
strategy(s) which have been shared at the regular story time with children by volunteers.
From Reach Out & Read
(http://www.reachoutandread.org/why-we-work/importance-of-reading-aloud/)
(http://www.reachoutandread.org/why-we-work/importance-of-reading-aloud/)
- Reading aloud in the early years exposes children to story and print knowledge as well as rare words and ideas not often found in day-to-day conversations or screen time.
- Reading aloud gives children the opportunity to practice listening - a crucial skill for kindergarten and beyond.