Imagine Schools
Ways to Encourage Reading over Winter Break
For Parents
Imagine Schools educators have shared ways to help your children
stay engaged with language over the holidays!
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Have a Scavenger hunt to find holiday gifts. Children have to read a clue
and then use the clue to guess where their gifts are.
Read a book that also is a movie and do a critique on the similarities and
differences (and which was better and why). Examples include Polar
Express for youngsters and Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe for older kids.
-Karen Gayle, National Academic and Council Coordinator, Sunrise, Florida
Read with your children every day.
Take a trip to the local library with your child and help him/her book out books he/she
is interested in.
Allow your child to help you in the kitchen preparing the holiday meal. Ask your child
to read the recipe aloud.
Give books as gifts.
-Stephanie Miller, Title 1 Coordinator, Imagine Woodbury Academy, Ohio
Find fun holiday books and read them as a family as one of your family traditions.
Ask children to read the messages in holiday cards when they arrive. Also, ask
children to help select holiday cards to send to important friends and family. Children
can help write the messages inside of each card as well!
-Karen Tankersley, Academic Coordinator, Southwest Region
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Encourage your child to read each night for 30
 Allow students to talk to you, the
parent, about what they have read.
 Work together to come up with a plan
to have your child meet their goals.
-Jaalla Weir, Librarian, Imagine North Texas
Imagine Schools
Ways to Encourage Reading over Winter Break
For Parents
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