Help Your Child With Research & Homework
Use the Virtual Reference Collection

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Helpful Tips for Parents

• Take your child to the public library and help them get a library card. Find out if there are any special programs or reading clubs at your library.
   
• Do follow up reading after watching a television show. For example, after watching a show about whales, get library books on that topic.
   
• Give your child books as a gift.
   
• Encourage your child to give books as gifts.
  
• Take books along when you go to doctors' offices, on car trips and on vacations.
   
• Show your child that you like to read.
   
• Read aloud to your child. Children enjoy hearing the same stories many times.
   
• After reading a story to your child, discuss the story.
   
• Set aside a special time to read every day, at least 20 minutes