Small Group Activities Setup stations in which people would circulate to do different book or reading related activities. Child/Parent Activities Listening centers Bingo Games a center on writing a new ending to story a center with story starters a computer station with books on cd a rebus station a puppet theatre for story retelling make books at home and give parents a list of simple, repetitive sentences to be used in their books...ex: I like to eat_________. I can see a ___________. Then give them magazines to search for pictures to go with whatever they chose as their sentence. Library Card sign-up station Create-a-snack table, snack related to a story book (Very Hungry Caterpillar: have foods mentioned in the book) Help the kids construct, various types of books: folded books, pop-up books, peek-throughs. And emphasis should be on activities that make use of materials easily obtained at home (cereal box cardboard, junk mail paper, etc) Make transparencies of a book and letting the children read in a choral group, parents joining. Create and illustrate silly stories-kids pick the nouns, verbs, and adjectives from different jars and create their sentences Create Ed Emberly's fingerprint pics and transform them into characters/stories Read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, then kids & parents decorate cookies then eat the Sing Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss and then have birthday cake Read books online at RIF Parent Activities-handouts or presentations on support developing literacy. Samples of good literature for children and handouts of book titles Invite a newspaper representative come and talk with parents/demonstrate use of the newspaper to encourage literacy of young readers Have the local librarian come to tell about all the opportunities offered at the local library Create a parents sharing area, have them write the ideas on large construction paper hearts and hang them for others to read Provide printouts of: RIF Family Reading Activities Developmental milestones of early literacy (help for parents) Soon-to-be-readers (help for parents) Tips for Reading to Infants and Toddlers Tips for Reading to School Age Children Reading Tips for Children Grades Four through Six Promote Reading for All Children Kids' Top 100 Books Teachers' Top 100 Books Display the poem, Read to Me: Read To Me By Jane Yolen Read to me riddles and read to me rhymes, Read to me stories of magical times. Read to me tales about castles and kings. Read to me stories of fabulous things. Read to me pirates and read to me knights, Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights. Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then, When you are finished -- please read them again.