Role Play Writing

Parent Tips

• Find time to share reading and writing activities with your children.
• Take your child to the library and encourage them to select their own books.
• Share simple storybooks with your child. Relate the characters and events to your child’s experiences.
• Read books with rhyme and repetition. Sometimes point to words as you are reading.
• Talk about the events of the day with your child.
• Talk about print in stores and on signs.
• Show your child how you use writing in messages, lists, letters, and cards.
• Provide a special place for your child to write.
• Find opportunities to display your child’s name.
• Talk about alphabet books.
• Write messages to your child and read them together.