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When You Read to a Child
- If you read to your child this week, draw a body on your paper, for you have begun to build a very basic part of him.
- If you have read stories about someone like himself, a neighbour like yours, put arms on the body. You have helped him find his place; to reach out and enrich his world.
- If you and your child read for a specific purpose — to look up a phone number, to read a recipe, to follow a road map, etc. — put a head on his shoulders. You have given him a key to unlock information.
- If you read a comic, a cartoon, or a funny story to your child, put a hat on his head. You have given your child something extra that adds colour to his life and plants the seeds of a sense of humour.
- If you have read to your child about something new to him, different customs, values, or environment; put legs on his body. You have helped him to walk out into the world.
- If you have read a variety of fantasy, fairy tales, folk tales, true tales, and stories of make believe; put clothes on your child. You have added new dimensions to his life.
- If you have shared a poem with him, put a sun in the sky. You have brought beauty into his life, and colour.
Thanks to Andrew Porteus (Hawkeye).
Presented at the Beaver Leaders' Sharing Day, November 1997.
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Last updated: September 15, 1998
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