Tip #3: Some Suggestions for Getting Started…
Piper Teaching
Some suggestions for getting started on Day One, which must also be kept in mind throughout the Reading Window program:
Try to arrange to have 15 uninterrupted minutes for introducing the Reading Window Game. But follow the child’s interest level, stopping even sooner if your child’s attention is flagging. It’s important to make it sound like you’re just playing together. For example, when you notice the child starting to become at all disinterested, you could say something like, “I have to do some laundry right now, but later, if you remind me, we can play some more.”
The first goal is to help the child have a positive, self-motivated attitude towards the Reading Window Game!
If you get off to a good start and maintain a positive attitude throughout, both you and your child will have fun and your child will learn happily and rapidly. Children are always learning. They can learn from you that reading is fun – or they can learn that reading is a disagreeable chore.
So always try to do the Reading Game when you yourself are feeling happy (and when your child is happy!).