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DECEMBER

Get Ready to Read

Skills to Practice this Month

Invite your child to help with grocery lists, grocery shopping, and sending cards. Read aloud everyday-words on labels, signs, and lists. Write words that interest your child (like “banana”) using crayons, markers, or colored pencils.

Make up short poems together and say words that rhyme. Make up your own silly, nonsense rhymes together. Sing songs.

More Fun Activities!

• Get Ready for School
• Be Healthy
• Summary of this Month's Activities

Translations:

• Español
• Hmoob
• Soomaali

Suggested Reading

Books for Children

Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC
by Debora Pearson

Carlo Likes Reading
by Jessica Spanyol

I Read Signs
by Tana Hoban

I Walk and Read
by Tana Hoban

Miss Mary Mack: A Hand- Clapping Rhyme
adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman

Playtime Rhymes for Little People
compiled by Mary Finch

Ready to Read: Based on Timothy Goes to School and Other Stories
by Rosemary Wells

Books for Parents and Caregivers

Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success
by Wiley Blevins

Wow! I’m Reading: Fun Activities to Make Reading Happen
by Jill Frankel Hauser