Activity Seven: Handout: Tips On Reading With Your Baby

• review the key vocabulary list for this handout
• ask your student to write each word in a sentence on an index card for her word bank
• read the handout, Tips On Reading With Your Baby
• discuss each of the points and why they would be important
• have your student write a story from her childhood that she might like to tell her child

Activity Eight: Handout: Choosing Books For Your Child

• review the key vocabulary list for this handout
• read the handout together
• discuss the points
• arrange a visit to the local library and take the handout
• have your student find an example of each book

Activity Nine:

• pay another visit to the library
• ask your student what type of book would be of interest to her child
• refer to the handout, Choosing Books for Your Child
• ask her to choose a book that she would like to share with her child
• read the book together
• after you have read the book once ask her if she would feel comfortable reading that book with her child