M and I enjoy story time sessions at our local library. We have been going to these since she was a little baby.
In this video, the librarian reads from a popular Clifford book.
- Note how the kids pay attention and respond to her even though they may have heard and read this very book a thousand times.
- Also, watch how she varies the tone and pitch of her voice wherever necessary, but does not dramatize so much that it distracts from the story. I believe there’s always something new about reading aloud that I learn when I go to these sessions.
- Even if you read to your kids everyday, it’s a good experience for them to hear different people and voices reading to them, at least occasionally. No two people read exactly the same way. So when your child listens to the same story read by different people, she has the opportunity to hear different accents, voices, speeds of reading and other subtle variations in reading that expand her learning and enrich her experience. This is why supplementing your reading with audio books or listening to the news is an idea worth exploring.
- My favorite part of story time is just to watch M enjoy herself, observe her expressions, the way she processes all that she hears (especially since we don’t speak English at home) and her general response to the whole experience.
Watch this space for more story time and read aloud videos.
I would love to hear about your story time experiences.
