Help Your Grandchildren with Reading

Reading is very important to me. I enjoy reading.  Lots.

I made sure my children could read. And I read to them. Lots.

Now, I want to be supportive in helping my grandchildren learn to read.  So I was very excited when I learned about the great site Starfall.com.

A young father told me about this site.  He said that his 7 year-old son was struggling with reading.  Because he was struggling, he didn’t want to read.  He didn’t want to try.  The young father spent time with his son on Starfall.com. 

After a few times, his son improved his reading and now loves to read.  Once he got over the struggle, once he gained confidence. Once he had some successful reading experiences, there was no stopping the son.

This is a pretty amazing site.  If you have a grandchild that is learning her ABCs, there are activities that will help her learn to recognize the letters and their sounds.

If your grandchild is a beginning reader, there are simple stories for her to read. There are fun activities: all about me (creating a little “journal”), go to the art gallery to learn about famous artists, create a magician and do magic tricks, listen to music (Beethoven, Scott Joplin, Peter Tchaikovsky), and learn tongue twisters.

There’s a download center where you can print out a reading and writing journal, cut-up and take home books, puzzles, and ABC printouts.  If your grandchildren live far away, you could print some up and send them in a package with fun pencils, crayons, or markers.

I think that the key to this site is sharing it WITH your grandchildren. They spend time quality time with grandma doing fun activities that will help the learn to read.

Check it out.

And most importantly, spend time reading with your grandchildren!