The Kiddo really loves to read too, even though all the solo reading he does isn't "real" reading he still really enjoys sitting down with a book and telling stories to go with the pictures. He loves sitting with me trying to read the easier words while I read the rest, and he loves being read too. So today we decided to follow my sister in laws lead and get him his own library card. He was ecstatic!
We signed him up, got his card and then went to look at the kids books section. He didn't know where to start, he knew he got to check them out with his card and take them home with him and that small little detail made all the difference. He grabbed books at random, to see the cover picture and have me read the title to him. Then he settled on five books.
We set his daily reading goal for 20 minutes. He does that already, nearly every day so it really isn't that much of a challenge. But if I sit with him and make it a "read to mom" session it will be. I'm looking forward to watching his skills grow.
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Woo hoo!! library books! :-)
I don't remember borrowing library books when I was really little, but when I got a bit older the bookmobile came around once a week and parked by the town's community center so we could go and check out books (like a branch of the county library that was there only part time). When I was older still, our town started a library in the basement of the old school, and by the time I graduated high school they had built a real library down at the end of Main Street (but I didn't go there then because our HS library had lots of good books to check out).
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