Category: Parent Talk
what do you do to tell a story without reading the printed kids story books with them? any sources of interest or any particular resources that serve the purpose, and how to get involve with kids on story telling time?
thanks
Hi there
Seedlings do a good range of printed children's books which have braille on them too. The RNIB in the UK do a series called two-ways which is pretty much the same thing. This way, you and baby can enjoy together.
Short of that I'd make up your own stories, using stuffed animals and other toys to bring the story to life instead of pictures.
Hope this helps
FM
thanks, no, not my kids.
I found it really difficult when she was like 1 or two - they had board books but kids at that age need to be hands on, and so do you when reading of course, since you do that with Braille - we do anyway.
Anyway I started reading more advanced books pretty early, what they started calling 'chapter books' things like Charlotte's Web and the like by downloading from WebBraille as soon as it became available.
Hi! When I volunteered in a daycare center, I usually either half read/half told stories that I memorized by heart from books which had slightly enlarged print, or I told my own stories and involved the kids by asking them questions and assigning them parts. They loved it! Whenever I announced it was story time, I had no trouble getting them to come to the circle and sit down. I also used music as well.
Hi this is little foot. I think that you guys have some pritty good ideas and I think that I might try to read her my daughter more books.
My son is at an age where he can understand stories so I like telling him stories I memorized as a child such as _The _Three _Bears and _The _Gingcrbread _Man. I also tell stories from the Bible in a simpler format that he can understand and I also have some Print/Braille books I get through a subscription through the National Braille Press and I get books from Seedlings.org.
national braille press also has a book of the month club. you can sign up at http://www.nbp.org.
additionally when my kids were in pre school, particularly during thunderstorms or waiting for something like a doc visit, i would tell them stories. it was good for them and kept me from dying of boredom. during storms i'd start out a story. then when i got to an exciting part i'd say, son, what do you think happpened next. he'd telll a part for a while, and then turn it over to his dad, who'd thenturn it over to our daughter. we'd go round and round and sometimes have them which continued frfom one storm to the next.
I loved story time when I was young. me dad read me novels and yes big ones he would read novels to me not childrens books like classic stuff then I got to tell my stories to him would hold a book and flip through and say crazy things like so one day 6000000 billion trillion thousand girrillas hopped out on to a playground joined by 400000 bears who started fighting then suddenly 200 million billion thousand dollar bills crashed on to the playground too and it scared everyone. and so everyone scattered and one bear said hey this isn't right sir. and you are a bad boy ... hahaha! stupid stuff like that and years later dad caught this on tape at the time so when I relisten to it it makes no sense and embarrases me and it's like uh rachel. that was stupid. but anyway, I would probably do what my dad did for me it made me be much fmore of a reader and writer. I wouldn't have loved old classic stuff so much if I wasn't so attached as a kid I still have this love for dickens and shakespeare and twain. it's like those never forgetable stories. I still remember at a quite young age my dad read me a simplified version of pride and prejudice and when I read it again in 9th grade I think it was I was like oo darcy I love darcy hahaha!
Hi this is little foot.
I just wanted to add that when I read a book to my daughter I face it the way she is facing and have her look at the pictures.
That is that that I was taught to read a book to a child.
so that he or she can see the pictures.
not the hole reading part isw good when they start reading larger book but it is good for simple books.
Does seedlings or american braille press have board books?
The majority of books that I have for my daughter are board books from future aids, the braille superstore, or whatever it is called. that is the only place I've been able to get books that have the braille for me to read, as well as the print text and pictures for her to look at. they also have a lot of tactile stuff on the pictures to make them more fun.
I believe seedlings have the braille/text books as well, though I for some reason can't get any from them, I am from Australia, and according to the website they do ship to australia, but it keeps telling me I have left something out on the order form, so I'm not sure.
My little girl does love reading though. she usually sits on my lap or beside me so she can see and touch the pictures while I read, and once the book is finished I let her sit down and look at herself.