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This is a great way to make reading interactive. A child can retell the story in their own way! • Encourages creativity and story-telling skills. • Sparks imagination. • Makes reading more interactive. Story in a Box allows children to take risks, to make up their own beginnings and endings to folktales, offering them the control over their world, which is a powerful self-esteem builder and motivator to engage in the reading process. "Early reading experiences are most meaningful when children are actively engaged in the process of reading and talking about books, in settings that are comfortable and non-threatening". ….Meredith Lewis, Staff Developer, Center for Early Childhood Professionals, Division of Continuing Education. Story in the Box Preschool Books can also teach math. You and your preschooler can practice counting or adding and subtracting the characters or props in the story. For example: • If the three bears were home and Goldilocks stopped by for a visit, how many people would be in the house? • How many chairs do Goldilocks and the three bears have? • If one broke, how many chairs are left to sit in?
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