HOW PARENTS CAN HELP CHILDREN LEARN

• Help your child get a library card for the public library. Find out from the children’s librarian if there are special children’s programs for your child.
• Look through your child’s schoolwork with him. Let your child tell you about his work. Perhaps your child can make a scrapbook at home with samples of his best work.
• Listen to your child read.
• Read to your child. Children of all ages enjoy hearing stories.
• Establish a reading time for your child such as after dinner or before bedtime.
• Read the comic section of the newspaper with your child.
• Teach your child how to make an emergency phone call.
• Help your child learn his address and phone number.
• Show your child how to use the telephone directory.
• Show your child the location of your home on a map.
• Play a board game with your child.
• Help your child start a collection. (rocks, stamps, pressed leaves, etc.)
• Give your child his very own calendar.
• Write notes to your child.
• Help your child write notes and letters to relatives or friends.
• Subscribe to a children’s magazine for you child.
• Help your child cook something.