10 Ways to Celebrate Family Literacy Day | clubmom

Family Literacy Day is January 27, a day that recognizes the importance of engaging in literacy activities as a family. Taking just 15 minutes a day to get involved in learning activities with your child goes a long way to improving her literacy skills. So in honour of Family Literacy Day, here are (in no particular order) 10 ways to celebrate family literacy every day.

1. Throw a Family Games Night

Board games offer great opportunities to practice reading, writing and counting as well as taking turns. With so many family games out there, many with junior versions for the younger set, it?s easy to find something everyone will enjoy.

2. Cuddle Up and Read Together

We all know the importance of reading to our babes and preschoolers, but don?t stop reading to them once they learn to read for themselves. Choose a book with a great story, one you?ll enjoy as much as your child. Your child will enjoy hearing a story that might be above her reading level. You?ll enjoy the quiet closeness.

3. Visit Your Local Library

Have you been to the library lately? It?s not the same as it was when we were kids. The library is buzzing with activity, including programming for readers of all ages. Check the library?s website for programming available at your local branch.

4. Host a Popcorn Book Club

This one comes courtesy of my sister. Here?s how it works: Gather the family in a comfy place and take turns talking about a book they?re reading or recently read. Everyone knows book clubs are as much about food as they are about books, so be sure to have some popcorn and other tasty snacks at the ready.

5. Cook Together

Invite the little ones into the kitchen and cook something up together. Following a recipe involves reading, counting and measuring. If your kids are real foodies, why not make up your own recipes and create a family cookbook.

6. You?ve Got Mail

Send postcards or greeting cards to friends or family. Everyone likes to get mail, especially kids. It?s especially nice when it comes with a warm and fuzzy message.

7. Check Out an Independent Bookstore

Indie bookstores, particularly children?s bookstores, are wondrous places. And the good folks who work there are oh so knowledgeable. They?ll set you right up with something you?ll enjoy reading. Many children?s bookstores also carry a good selection of adult books.

8. Plan Your Next Family Vacation Together

Go online or gather some travel books and research destinations, accommodations and itineraries together. Work together to map out your trip. Make lists of what you?ll need. Not only is this a great literacy exercise, it also helps ensure everyone will enjoy the next vacation.

9. Head to the Grocery Store

There is a lot of literacy involved in getting the groceries done. At home, the kids can help you come up with the grocery list. The little ones can cut pictures of what you need from the weekly grocery flyers and the older ones can help you sort the items into categories and map out your route in the store. In the store, the kids can help you count items, read labels and compare prices. The bonus: you?ll be done so much faster with the extra help.

10. Get Caught Reading

Be sure to build time into your day when you can read for yourself. Doesn?t matter if it?s the newspaper, a magazine or a book, modeling reading as an enjoyable part of your day is one of the most important things you can do to raise life-long readers.

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