{"id":45185,"date":"2022-03-09T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?p=45185"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:01:55","slug":"have-you-been-missing-out-on-wordless-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/have-you-been-missing-out-on-wordless-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Been Missing Out on Wordless Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Invite your children to co-author a story!<\/strong><\/p>\n Literacy involves much more than reading words on a page and wordless books are an often overlooked tool in the literacy toolbox. Have you been overlooking them? I have!<\/p>\n “Reading” wordless books increases vocabulary. Your children have two sets of vocabulary: one they can understand when they hear it but not use and one they can understand and properly use in a sentence. Reading wordless books challenges and increases that second set of vocabulary skills.<\/p>\n “Reading” a wordless book gives your children an opportunity to practice building a story long before they can write one and collecting thoughts and verbalizing them is foundational to writing.<\/p>\n “Reading” a wordless book ignites the imagination.<\/p>\n There is no right or wrong way to read a wordless book but here are a few tips.<\/p>\n Wordless books are a great pre-school activity and we have a perfect pre-school starter book, Pancakes for Breakfast<\/a> by Tomie DePaola.<\/p>\n Up and Up<\/a> by Shirley Hughes is a favourite wordless book and a must-have!<\/p>\n\n