How your child will benefit

📚 Thoughtful Book Chats

  • Guided discussions around characters, plot, and themes

  • “What would you do?” moral dilemmas

  • Exploring big ideas in fun, age-appropriate ways

  • Making connections to real life

✍️ Creative Responses

  • Drawing characters or scenes

  • Writing letters as the characters

  • Making alternative endings

  • Mini book reviews, posters, and comic strips

🎭 Dramatic and Verbal Fun

  • Acting out scenes or monologues

  • Group storytelling

  • Dialogue read-alongs

  • Sound effects and voice work to bring text alive

🎲 Games & Challenges

  • Quizzes and scavenger hunts based on the book

  • Literary charades

  • “Guess the quote” and character guessing games

  • Book-themed puzzles

💬 Social and Emotional Learning

  • Building confidence speaking in a group

  • Listening and sharing respectfully

  • Developing empathy through characters

  • Celebrating diverse voices and experiences

🔍 Reading Skills & Vocabulary

  • Encouraging independent reading

  • Expanding vocabulary in fun ways

  • Spot-the-word challenges

  • Context clues and predictions