Go to your local library to get more books📚 Your local library has lots of free books. Let your child choose which ones to bring home.🐽🍇

Don't skip the big words📚 When talking or reading to your kids, use complex words and explain their meanings in a fun way.🐽🍇

The 15-Minute Rule📚 Reading just 15 minutes a day with your child exposes them to over a million words per year, helping close vocabulary gaps before school starts.🐽🍇

Future Success📚 Teenagers who choose to read books for pleasure outside of school are more likely to land professional and managerial jobs as adults.🐽🍇

Encourage storytelling📚 Encourage your child to tell you a story from time to time or to retell a story after you’ve read it several times. Don’t feel the need to correct how she’s telling the story. Let her enjoy the experience of storytelling.🐽🍇

Big Vocabulary Boost📚 Children learn between 4,000 and 12,000 words every year just through independent reading.🐽🍇

Ask your child questions about the story📚 Where is the lighthouse? What do you think will happen next? Why is MUDWIG purple? How did STUBS The Seagull get a wooden leg? Be sure to give your child time to answer!🐽🍇

Read anywhere, anytime📚 Read to your children at playtime, bedtime and naptime. Read any place you have to wait. Read at the playground or under a tree, in the car or on a bus.🐽🍇

The Magic Number: 80 Books📚 Studies show that growing up in a home with a library of at least 80 books significantly increases a child's adult literacy and numeracy levels, regardless of their parents' educational background.🐽🍇

Reading just one book a day to a young child exposes them to about 1,825 books by the time they turn five years old.📚 Children's books also contain 50% more uncommon words that kids rarely hear in normal daily conversation, on TV, or on the radio. This makes reading aloud one of the fastest and best ways to help build a large vocabulary early in life.🐽🍇

Read everyday print with your kids.📚 Look at grocery lists, street signs, billboards, backs of cereal boxes, and milk carton nutrition labels while out and about. It makes reading on the move fun!🐽🍇

Reread their favorite books.📚 Reading the same beloved book over and over helps children build memory and word recognition.🐽🍇

Make reading aloud an enjoyable experience.📚 Snuggle up, relax, and have fun. Take time with a page, and point out pictures and other print features. Children may want to take an active part by turning the pages when you read or being responsible for reading/saying aloud certain words within the story.🐽🍇

Reading is a journey.📚 It’s a way to explore new worlds and meet new people. It’s a way to learn about different cultures and ways of life. And it’s a way to expand imagination.🐽🍇

Read with passion to your kids!📚 Reading with passion is not only fun, it also helps your child focus and better absorb what you are reading to them. Using inflection and maintaining the same highs and lows in your voice at the same point in a story helps your child begin to remember the words, building their language and literacy skills.🐽🍇

While it may seem simple, reading to your child as early as possible can help kickstart their literacy skillsets.📚 Reading to babies is important for healthy brain development and lays the foundation for language and writing skills.🐽🍇

Don't miss MUDWIG at the 164th Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair! 🎡🐽🍇