Born Reading by Jason Boog

Author:Jason Boog
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone

Born Reading Playbook: Continue the conversation.

Don’t stop talking about a book or digital reading app after you’ve ended the reading experience. Reference the book in real life and keep asking questions.

Conversation starters: Do you want to sing Elmo’s alphabet song? What shape did Curious George draw for the letter “A”?

The best kids’ apps take this into account as well. Tom Bonnick from Nosy Crow explains how kids can discover letters and reading inside his company’s apps. “For pre-literate children there’s a lot that you can get out of them. We’ve included features like text-highlighting, so that every word lights up as it’s read aloud, which is a good tool for attaching sound and meaning to written words in a child’s mind when they’re learning to read.”

While watching Sesame Street videos, we met Harvey Kneeslapper. When I was a kid, this scruffy Muppet always made me laugh with his super corny jokes. Olive laughed out loud at his first alphabet-themed pun: “Can I take a picture of U?” he asked a bald-headed man. Without losing a beat, he slapped the letter “U” on his victim’s bald head and took his photograph.

After watching the video, I cut out a paper “U” and chased Olive around the house. We took turns sticking the letter on each other and making the same joke. She loved it.

The best crafts are that simple: taking something from a book or TV show and cutting it out with construction paper. Olive loved the activity, and it brought some real educational value to the passive activity of watching television.

Born Reading Bundle: Curious George Learns the Alphabet

1. Make cut-out letters or draw pictures like Curious George.

2. Listen to the audiobook edition.

3. Read Dr. Seuss’s ABCs and ask your librarian to recommend an alphabet book based on your kid’s favorite things.

4. Watch Sesame Street videos about letters, play the Ricky Gervais or Harvey Kneeslapper game.

5. Visit PBS Kids’ “Alphabet Games” section online. It is filled with lovable characters exploring the alphabet.

Reading Your Way through Potty Training

At some point during this momentous year, most parents attempt potty training. This seemingly endless process requires lots and lots of children’s books.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, it takes between 10 and 12 bathroom successes before a kid is potty trained. That can take a LONG time. You will spend hours crouched beside your toddler and you will need something to do during these painfully dull moments in the bathroom waiting.

During our potty training process, we built a bathroom library with four books: Once Upon a Potty by Alona Frankel, Potty by Leslie Patricelli, It’s Potty Time by Roger Priddy, and Potty Time with Elmo.

You can visit a bookstore and make your own collection, giving your kid a chance to pick out a special book. They will grow tired of a single book eventually, so I recommend throwing in a few more titles for variety.

My favorite book was Patricelli’s Potty. Olive had picked it out months before our successful potty training efforts. The lovable baby from all of Patricelli’s books will walk your toddler through the act of potty training.

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