Literacy

Engaging in Book Week at Home

If you’re looking for fun reading activities to do with your child at home, then getting excited in the upcoming Children’s Book Week is the perfect time to have a go. These suggestions created by Twinkle, may help out for ideas;

1. For a special treat, why not find a new and exciting place for your child to read? They could take a book to the park or read in a tent or a homemade shelter in the house or garden. Reading by torchlight can make this even more fun.
2. Reading isn’t just about traditional books. It’s great for your child to read whatever they can lay their hands on. Joke books, advertisements on billboards, cookery books -  to name but a few. Wordless books are fabulous too.
3. You could also encourage your child to act out scenes or characters in their favourite book. How does that character talk? How do they move? Or, perhaps your child would like to reimagine the story, maybe dressing up or using their own choice of props?
4. You could write a book review together, which might include thinking about who the book is aimed at and whether they’d recommend the book and why. 

You might like to start by watching My Country by author Ezekiel Kwaymullina.

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