In the last Blog (last night) I discussed using routines and bedtime stories and how effective this was for a couple of our grand children (Now you know, no good keeping secrets on cyber-space!). It just so happens that a couple of our other grand kids were sleeping over for the night tonight. Now the bed time reading routines can work well to a point, but when they are so excited about sleeping over you need to pull out the big guns. I mean the 'Fair Dinkum' really big guns like Ernest Borgnine reading a story online. Now, if what I said last night doesn't work then follow-up with this.
So, after reading some bedtime stories and they still won't go to sleep then drag out the laptop and goto storyonline online http://www.storylineonline.net/ and let the kids listen to top actors reading interesting books. This works much better than valium and they can hear what good fluent reading sounds like. Now we are really getting back on to the fluency topic!
I just had to be a bit spontaneous - this stuff is literacy as it happens! A sort of literacy news flash! Something really ground breaking!!!
So, after reading some bedtime stories and they still won't go to sleep then drag out the laptop and goto storyonline online http://www.storylineonline.net/ and let the kids listen to top actors reading interesting books. This works much better than valium and they can hear what good fluent reading sounds like. Now we are really getting back on to the fluency topic!
I just had to be a bit spontaneous - this stuff is literacy as it happens! A sort of literacy news flash! Something really ground breaking!!!
My other grand children have been finding it difficult to stay in their own beds at night and would often end up in Mum and Dad's bed. After trying this bedtime listening activity they have been finding that the children are more content to remain in their own beds.
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