Holiday Reading for Early Readers

Last school year I was so thrilled that my daughter learned to read in JK. Over the summer we did our best to keep her reading up. I bought lots of interesting books and we scheduled time to read here and there.

Then September came and my daughter went to French Immersion SK. There, no one read. By the end of school year the expectation is that children will pick up the oral language, so literacy is not even in the curriculum. They are just learning the French alphabet.

So what a mom to do? I bought so many books and printed so many interesting kid-firendly reading materials but my daughter’s interest in reading remained low … until now!

Want your young readers to be eager to read over these Holidays?

Come Elf on the Shelf to the rescue! We just adopted this beautiful Christmas tradition and on December 1 invited our own little Elf to join the household for the next few weeks. Our Elf, or rather Elfie, comes with a printed letter from Santa (i.e. me, the mom) each morning . She tells the kids what she observed, liked and disliked, what she learned and been up to, among other things. My 5 year old daughter now can’t wait to jump out of bed and read the letters each morning … and her reading and vocab is now improving once again!

I know we are all set in terms of reading materials until Christmas! … And after that – maybe there will be a new “member” of the family with letters 😉

And as a bonus, the Elfie reminds my children to behave and adopt new positive habits. What a great way to get the message across, under cover 😉

What to take it to he next level?

This year, our Elfie is coming with letters printed in French! And my daughters are speaking French back to Elfie! French made easy – peasy.