"Mix It Up" by Herve Tullet is a great interactive book to read with children.
Children learn better when they are actively involved in the learning experience.
When reading a story to children, it is important that both the story and the storyteller are ENGAGING!
When reading Mix It Up, the educator can call up the children individually to follow the instructions in the book on mixing colours.
Kate should remember these things when reading the story:
Speak UP and OUT
Speak slowly and clearly
Have a smile in your voice
Ask questions of the children while you are reading. You can practice your See Think Wonder questions like: What can you see? What do you think will happen next? I wonder what will happen when you do that?
EXTENSION TASK
When the children begin to know the story try only reading the first few words of the sentence and encourage the children to finish off the sentence. This helps them to improve their language and communication development.
This method of asking questions during a story and having the children "read" some of the words is called Dialogic Storytelling.
It makes storytelling more like a conversation with the children rather than the teacher sitting at the front of a group and reading TO the children.
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