Book Ideas Reading Aloud with Preschoolers While connecting experience to language is an important foundation for learning to read, giving children direct contact with books is equally important. In fact, the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children. Our Granny has a wobbly bottom. This is a funny and lovable story about Grannies. This story is rich with diversity, and helps the children to understand that not everyone is the same.
People live in many different places, have different jobs, and do different things.
Yet the story shows a more intimate side of one family s Granny. There is a wonderful opportunity to ask children open ended questions about their Grannies.