Your Reading Questions Answered & A Giveaway
National Reading Month has come to a close. We’re wrapping up the Spring Into Reading Google+ Hangout Series with one last hangout tonight at 10pm EDT. We’re answering your reading questions.
Your Reading Questions
The following is a list of commonly asked questions about reading with kids. We will answer these questions in our live video chat. Do you have any questions to add to the list?
- How do you foster a love of reading in your homes?
- How do you get young children to sit still to listen to a story?
- How do you decide what books to read with your children?
- When should you start teaching sight words?
- When do you start reading chapter books with your kids?
- Where and how do you store all your books in your house?
- At what age do you start reading books to kids?
- What are simple ways to introduce letter names and sounds?
- Do you have a story time ritual at your house? When?
- How do you keep children from losing focus while reading a book?
- Do I need a reading space in my house?
- What are simple ways that you use to engage your children as you read stories aloud?
Spring Into Reading Wrap Up: Q&A with Kid Bloggers
Join Kim and Amanda from The Educators’ Spin On It, Kristina from Toddler Approved, Megan from Coffee Cups and Crayons, Erica from What Do We Do All Day, Carolyn from The Pleasantest Thing , Becky from Kid World Citizen, Bethany from No Twiddle Twaddle, and me as we wrap up the series with one last video chat.
The Giveaways
We have a few authors and publishers who have been kind enough to support our Spring Into Reading series. We would like to thank Scholastic, Melissa Taylor, Chronicle Books, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Books.
I’m including Amazon affiliate links to each of the books, so you can see what you might win!
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Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal from Scholastic
I Scream Ice Cream by Amy Krouse Rosenthal from Chronicle Books
Book Love by Melissa Taylor
Tons of Trucks by Sue Fliess
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Other Spring Into Reading Hangouts
- Catch up on all of the Spring Into Reading video hangouts here. Here’s the full list of topics that we’ve covered:
- Read Across America with Dr. Seuss Activities
- World Read Aloud Day and an Interview with Author Sue Fliess
- World Book Day
- Challenging Advanced Readers
- Stories as Parenting Tools
- Playful Storytelling
- Movement with Books
- Interview with Author/Illustrator Angela Dominguez
- Reading with Babies
- Struggling and Reluctant Readers
- Read our Tips for Making the Most of Reading with Kids.
- Find out how you can listen to stories online and hear author Sue Fliess read Tons of Trucks.
Linking up here.
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