What to do on a summer day when there’s no school, nothing on TV, no friends around, and it’s too hot to play outside? Slow down, cool off, and chill out with a good book! Go on an armchair adventure, bring the outdoors in, create in the kitchen, explore some science that isn’t usually found in school, tickle your funny bone with a bit of a math problem, and more.
Children learn when they make connections between what they hear and what they know. One method parents can use to help make these connections is called a think aloud, where you talk through your thoughts as you read.
Fostering a creative spirit will give your child experience identifying a problem and coming up with new ideas for solving it. Here are four ways to encourage creativity in your young child.
Think-alouds have been described as “eavesdropping on someone’s thinking.” With this strategy, teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. Their verbalizations include describing things they’re doing as they read to monitor their comprehension. The purpose of the think-aloud strategy is to model for students how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.
