If you have access to a cassette recorder, you can give your children cassette tapes of their favourite stories recorded by their favourite voice — yours!
Choose books that you and your children have enjoyed reading aloud together. In fact, you can record during your regular read- aloud sessions. Read slowly and with expression, pausing to [...]
If your children delight in spooky stories, your whole family can now enjoy those spine-tingling sensations right in the comfort of
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Striking Fear with a Torch. This idea is for older children who find scary things fascinating. Turn off the lights. Put on a ski mask or a Halloween mask, or make an ugly [...]
Here’s a technique that will keep restless children more involved during read-aloud time. Ask your children to help you provide sound effects in the appropriate places.
Use your voices and hands to make the bed creak, the floor squeak, the leaves swish and the kettle hiss. Children who actively participate in a reading listen with rapt [...]