Independent

Games & Activities:

• Take a picture walk in a new book and guess what words you’ll see on the pages.
• Reread a book to notice something new you didn’t notice the first time you read it.
• Tally the number of books you read each night and see if you can read more the next night.

Projects:

• Make a poster of all the things that good readers do when they read books.

Family

Games & Activities:

• Have a reading marathon where everyone reads for given period of time.
• Take turns introducing a book to your family and doing a read aloud in a storyteller voice.
• Reread a familiar book and see if you can notice something new you’ve never noticed before.
• Cover some words in a book and play “Guess the Covered Words”.

Projects:

• Create comfortable reading spaces free from distractions for everyone in your family.

Extension