Check Out Informational Books
Here's What To Do
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Visit the library with your family to select informational books about a topic they’re interested in.
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Your librarian can help you to find developmentally appropriate books.
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You can also select a topic that is of interest to everyone in the family, so each person can select their own informational book and share what they’re learning.
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Or, have a special time where everyone shares about their own interests!
Put PEER Into Action
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Pause:
- Build excitement about your visit to the library by sharing that everyone will be able to get books to find out even more about a topic of interest.
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Engage:
- “What do you want to learn more about?”
- “We can read a nonfiction or informational book about ___ so we can learn more about it. Informational books tell us facts or real information about something.”
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Encourage:
- Look at the covers of the books and flip through a few pages together.
- Encourage your child to select more than one book if they’re not sure which book to choose. You can explore them all together over time!
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Reflect:
- “What is something you learned from that book?”
Not quite ready?
Select a simple informational book with a lot of pictures and limited text. Focus on what interests your child the most.
Ready for more?
Your child can compare the information in the informational text with information in a story about the same topic.
As your child masters this skill...
They will describe information in informational texts.