Last night, after designing the Planet Storybook site, I decided to record a video of my 4 year old, Ari reading as a test of videos for the website. She was very excited to do this and did a great job!
She wanted to do it again during our reading hour today and I am thinking of making this a daily ritual during our reading hour.
Through this experiment, I found this is a great way to encourage her to read out-loud because normally she wants me to read to her and she would just listen.
In our regular routine, as a family read about 5-6 stories a day, and get 10 new books from the library a week.
I love reading and bonding with her during this time and adding this 'read-out-loud' filming where she can share with other kids really motivates her to get even better at it. I also like the fact that I get to document her reading development skills. I encourage all parents to try this with their kids and then they can watch back on themselves.
Here is the first video of her reading:
A Very Hungry Caterpillar - Storybook read by Ari
You can check out the Planet Storybook youtube.com channel at: http://www.youtube.com/planetstorybook where I will be adding reading content of books and stories for kids of all ages.
I would love for other mom's to send me videos of their kids reading and I will definitely feature them. Please mail me them to: planetstorybook@gmail.com
Until next time, happy reading & parenting!
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