Family Reading @ Home: Making Reading Fun for the Family

Have you wondered what you can do to get your child more interested in reading? Why not try to make reading a FUN time at home? Here are few ideas on how to bring the reading spirit into your home!

1. Be Silly
Play with the words, make up nonsense words, discover rhyming patterns together.
2. Make Reading Together a Habit
3. Make Books come Alive!
If you read a story about the library, take your child to the library! Find ways to make reading
meaningful.
4. Enjoy reading together
When reading together as a family, focus on enjoying the message of the story, the illustrations and the experience of reading. Don’t worry so much about your child perfecting every word (it’s not a reading test)! Celebrate the enjoyment of reading together.
5. Read with a stuffed animal
6. Draw pictures to go with the story
7. Have books readily available around the home
Books At Home (Tips to make books a part of everyday life- pdf file)
8. Be enthusiastic!

For more ideas, visit:
http://www.familyreading.org/i-tips.htm

Library Web Site @ Finch

Finch Library Website: http://www.tdsb.on.ca/libraries/links.asp?schoolNo=3122 All Finch students, teachers and parents can have access to the TDSB Elementary School Library Web Site for Finch Public School. This site is created and maintained by the Instructional Leaders and Technical Support staff of the Library Learning and Resources department, with the help of teacher-librarians in Toronto schools.

Professional Resources @ Finch Library

The library has a growing selection of resources that can support teachers in your program. Over the past two years, our Language Professional Resource Collection has grown extensively. These resources are located in the Teacher Resource Room in the library, and they are coded with a blue dot.

Graphic Novels @ Finch Library

We have just added a new collection of Graphic novels to our library! Graphic novels resemble comic books in that they have a lot of visual support and text primarily in speech bubbles. Graphic Novels usually come in series, and have a lengthy plot and storyline, which helps to engage readers to keep reading. They are

sometimes based on popular cartoon series. The visual support and high-interest titles are a great way to reach reluctant readers and readers looking to explore a new genre of literature. With the growing popularity of graphic novels, many new series have been developed that have curriculum links (i.e. Biographies of Canadians, Medieval and Ancient Civilizations etc.) as well as character building and anti-bullying messages for young readers. At Finch, we have selected Graphic novels that have themes that are appropriate for our young readers.