Preschool Reading Activities

Use these preschool reading activities to enrich your child's life.

Picture books can be read by a person of any age, but they are usually thought of as preschool books. That doesn't mean the words are easy to read, but that the story is told as much by the pictures as by the words. The books below are some of our favorites because they tell engaging stories using imaginative illustrations. They capture the imagination in some way, through the pictures and words but also through ideas and concepts and humor and insight.

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Stories have long been used for teaching morals, manners and developing character. You can help young people develop the ability to learn from experience, preferably the experience of others through stories, by asking such questions as:
1. What did (any particular character in the story) want?
2. What did (any particular character in the story) do?

Insight questions can help kids probe more deeply into the why of things by going beyond the obvious to consider things that are not explicitly revealed in the story:
1. Why did (this character) do what he/she did?
2. Why would someone allow themselves to feel, think, act that way?
3. What could this character have done differently, better?

Foresight questions help kids recognize the cause and effect relationships so they can see consequences of choices they may make.
1.What happened as a result of what (any particular character)did?
2. Could (the character) have forseen that ressult?

Books are not only enjoyable, they are GREAT teaching tools!

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