Make globes, maps and encyclopedias (both print and online
versions) available to your child and find ways to use them often.
You can use a reference to Africa in your child’s favorite story as an
opportunity to point out the continent on a globe. You can use the red,
white and green stripes on a box of spaghetti to help her find Italy on a map
and to learn more about its culture by looking it up in the encyclopedia.
Check out from your library or buy a collection of great speeches
and other written documents to read with your child from time to time.
As you read, pause frequently and try to restate the key points in these
documents in language that your child can understand.
