Is there anything more enjoyable than reading a newspaper on a lazy Sunday morning, outside to the porch where you can bask in the sunshine or to the backyard under the shade of your favorite tree? Wherever you enjoy your morning paper, invite your child to join you with some of these newspaper reading activities!
Remember: Any kind of reading will help increase your childs reading scores and her love of reading. Just spending this kind of quality time will go a long way to helping your child become a lifetime reader.
1. Newspaper Puzzles
Choose a section of the paper you are finished reading and one you think your child will be particularly interested in such as sports or local events. Clip an interesting news story and cut the paragraphs apart. Hand the article to your child in pieces and ask him to read the paragraphs and put the article back together in the proper order. Read the article together and talk about the news story.
2. In My Opinion
Give your child the editorial section and two different colors of highlighter pens. Ask her to highlight all the facts in one color and the opinions in the other color. Talk about the article together. Help your child see that sometimes people with the same facts form different opinions. Also it might be interesting to note that people spout their opinions without any consideration of the facts. Use this time as an opportunity to help children see that forming opinions based on facts makes a lot more sense than just forming opinions for opinion sake.