Having trouble finding a reading program in your community that suits your child's special needs? Everybody's welcome in the About.com Parenting Special Needs Summer Reading Club. We'll be making an online "reading quilt" of all the books participants make it through. Here's how to join in.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: However much your child can stand
Here's How:
- Read a book with your child. It can be fiction or nonfiction, short or long, easy or hard, assigned by school or just for fun. Consult "Start a Reading Routine" for some ideas on how to get reading, and use Motivating Bookmarks to drag reluctant readers through those pages.
- When the book is completed, send an e-mail to Terri Mauro, Parenting Special Needs guide, at specialchildren.guide@about.com listing your child's name, the title of the book read, the author of the book, and your child's comment on the book, good or bad (can be a favorite part or character, something funny, something sad, whether he or she would recommend it, a star rating, etc.)
- With the e-mail, you can send a photo of your child with the book or of artwork your child made in response to the book if you like, though it's not necessary. In sending those images, you are granting permission for them to be posted on the About.com Parenting Special Needs site. Please include your own name for photo attribution.
- The information you send will be made into a "square" for our online reading "quilt," to be posted in a gallery on the About.com Parenting Special Needs site. The more books read, the more colorful squares we'll make.
- In addition to our online "quilt," you can print out the squares from the books your child read and make your own "quilt" at home.
