Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 6, 2014 13:40:51 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Oct 6, 2014 13:40:51 GMT 9

Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading

Yes, this is our bathroom. (Don't worry, I'm not challenging you to come over and clean it or anything. Also, please note that we do have a bathtub, but in Japanese homes, bathtubs and toilets are always in separate locations.)

I'm giving you this privileged glimpse of our bathroom to show the "captive reading" papers on the walls (and door, too). In this case, I was writing a "serial story" for my kids.

If you're not familiar with the strategy I call "captive reading," it's basically a way to increase exposure to the minority language--even in your absence--by posting suitable text in the bathroom (or other "captive reading" location), where children with some reading ability will be "forced" to read it. It's simply human nature for our eyes to begin reading any comprehensible text that falls under our gaze and this approach takes crafty advantage of that "automatic reading response."

I've used the idea of captive reading for years, ever since my kids were small, and in a wide variety of forms--persistently adding fresh text to the bathroom door every other day or so. Alongside my other efforts, I believe this practice has had a hugely positive impact on their literacy development and overall ability in the minority language.

At my blog, I've written extensively about my adventures with captive reading, and these are the articles to date, in the order I published them...

What Is Captive Reading and How Will It Help My Bilingual Child?

Don't Read These Words!

Why You Must Put a Whiteboard in the Bathroom

Turn Your Kids into Eager Readers with This Fun, Simple Strategy

How Rats in the Bathroom Can Boost a Child’s Bilingual Ability

If This Isn’t a Big Part of Your Strategy for Raising Bilingual Kids, It Really Should Be

How to Use Poetry with Your Bilingual Kids (And Why You Should)

My Favorite Way to Get a Bilingual Child Reading More in the Minority Language

The Larger Arc of Captive Reading—and Our Lives As Human Beings

For this fourth challenge, I encourage you to consider these posts carefully, as food for thought, then pursue your own sustainable practice of captive reading. (You could start at around age 3.) Which activities would work best for your child's age, language level, and interests?

Experiment for about two weeks then return to this thread and tell us about it! What are you doing? How has your child responded? What sort of impact do you think this might have on her language and literacy development, over time?

Captive reading has been an important "secret weapon" in my own bilingual journey and I urge you to take persistent advantage of this idea, too, to help maximize your child's long-term progress.

P.S. If you're curious to see what sort of "captive reading materials" I'm currently using with my kids (now 10 and 7), just peek inside these two books. I post one mystery on the door every couple of days, which not only promotes reading (and critical thinking), it inspires interaction, too, when they offer their solution to me.

One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science

One Minute Mysteries: 65 More Short Mysteries You Solve With Science

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Dani Senior Keeper Love my bilingual kids! Posts: 157 Country (residing now): USA Country (originally from): Peru Children, Ages: Boy, 4 years old and a girl, 2 years old. Majority Language: English Minority Language(s): Spanish	Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 2:27:08 GMT 9 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Dani on Oct 9, 2014 2:27:08 GMT 9 Hi Adam, thanks for your post! Is it possible to do captive reading with an 11 month old baby?

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 5:49:55 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Oct 9, 2014 5:49:55 GMT 9

Oct 9, 2014 2:27:08 GMT 9 Dani said:

Is it possible to do captive reading with an 11 month old baby?

Dani, there are two kinds of captive reading, really. The kind I'm emphasizing in this challenge involves posting suitable text around the house, and particularly in a "captive location" like the bathroom. Although it would be fine, and probably helpful for the parent's sense of routine, to begin this effort early (like putting up posters of the minority language script), I'm not sure how much impact this will actually have on the child before the age of around 2 or 3.

Prior to that point, the most important kind of captive reading involves establishing and maintaining a daily read aloud routine: simply place the baby on her back and lie on the floor next to her with a stack of books. As I write in the first post I made about captive reading at Bilingual Monkeys...

A baby, lying there on her back, blinking up at the world, is the best “captive audience” you’ll ever have. After all, when you join a newborn on the floor and hold a colorful picture book in front of her eyes, what else is that baby going to do besides look at the book and listen to your voice? Tear the book from your hand? Run away? Call the police?

Infancy is the “golden age of captive reading” and parents should take full advantage of this time by beginning the habit of reading aloud from day one. Not only will you be increasing the child’s exposure to the minority language, and benefiting her budding language ability, the warmth felt in these moments between parent and child—a reward itself—will also foster a positive association with books and reading in the child’s little heart.

When you're reading together on the floor, just be careful of those hard, heavy "board books"! They can be dangerous if they slip out of your hands!

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 7:05:11 GMT 9

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Post by Tatyana L on Oct 9, 2014 7:05:11 GMT 9

Oct 9, 2014 2:27:08 GMT 9 Dani said:

Is it possible to do captive reading with an 11 month old baby?

I adapted a version of this for my baby. Captive reading is based on the notion that someone will read what is in front of them out of sheer habit and curiosity. The same principle applies to viewing pictures.

A common problem for parents of a bilingual baby is that babies require a lot of minority language input, but they themselves can't talk yet. So you end up with a parent that basically has to have a steady stream of talking to themselves. Also you have to provide lots of chatting on lots of different topics because you have to cover a whole world of vocabulary with very limited home environment. This is a very difficult thing to do for the quiet, introverted people like myself.

What I did for my second baby is tape pictures to the walls and put them in her crib. So when sitting on the floor with the baby I'd look at a picture and suddenly have something to talk about - "Look it's a field. Look at the flowers on it. Look that's a cow. It says moo". I rotated them every week or so because after that long I felt like I was like a broken record with the same cow, the same flowers and the same moo.

While I stopped doing this after she became mobile, you can continue doing that with more advanced material that grows with them and over time transitions to the true captive reading method.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 8:09:40 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Oct 9, 2014 8:09:40 GMT 9

Oct 9, 2014 7:05:11 GMT 9 Tatyana L said:

What I did for my second baby is tape pictures to the walls and put them in her crib. So when sitting on the floor with the baby I'd look at a picture and suddenly have something to talk about - "Look it's a field. Look at the flowers on it. Look that's a cow. It says moo". I rotated them every week or so because after that long I felt like I was like a broken record with the same cow, the same flowers and the same moo.

While I stopped doing this after she became mobile, you can continue doing that with more advanced material that grows with them and over time transitions to the true captive reading method.

Tatyana, this is an excellent idea. Thanks so much for sharing it. In a way, it's a clever and effective extension of read aloud sessions, because a lot of books for babies consist mainly of pictures that the parent describes. So I can see how posting pictures in strategic locations around the house would be a very helpful way to expand on this process and give the parent "prompts" for conversation throughout the day.

I don't know if the images I link to in these blog posts would be useful for this purpose (I had older kids in mind), but they might be of some inspiration to any parent wishing to take greater advantage of images in their efforts...

Recommended Resources: The Extraordinary BoredPanda.com

How Images Will Stimulate Your Child’s Bilingual Development

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 15:22:08 GMT 9

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Post by Dani on Oct 9, 2014 15:22:08 GMT 9

Thanks Tatyana!! The ideas of the pictures are great!! Got to start doing that!! And yeah, you are right we got to talk of many different things in order to increase their vocabulary. I have found talking to my baby (although he does not talk yet) like if he is another adult, using more complex words sometimes.

Definitely, raising bilingual kids being a working mom is not easy. Requires lots of commitment.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 15:28:12 GMT 9

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Post by Dani on Oct 9, 2014 15:28:12 GMT 9

Thanks Adam, love the idea of the museum. So cool that you got your kids to write what they saw. I am sure I will do something like that when my boy is older. The Bored Panda pictures are also very inviting for starting a conversation. You guys are very creative!!

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 9, 2014 19:38:50 GMT 9

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Post by Mayken on Oct 9, 2014 19:38:50 GMT 9

I put up a German alphabet poster on our bedroom door (hers already has a numbers poster), which resulted in her pointing to the apple and the letter A and saying "A like...pomme" (the French word for apple).

For the moment I refrain from posting things in the bathroom, since she already dawdles on the toilet far longer than necessary. But during that time (and cause and effect may be debatable in the delays) she requests stories from me (ml parent), either from a book, or one of the childhood anecdotes I've dug up from my memory (which by now she knows well enough to retell them herself). The latter an idea I borrowed from Adam (the baby chicks in the bathtub).

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Dec 30, 2014 10:55:51 GMT 9

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Post by M.Martí on Dec 30, 2014 10:55:51 GMT 9

Oct 9, 2014 2:27:08 GMT 9 Dani said:

Hi Adam, thanks for your post! Is it possible to do captive reading with an 11 month old baby?

Now I think I was doing this with my son, without knowing it, so I am going to say yes it is possible. I printed the days of the week, months of the year, numbers and seasons, and placed them in his playroom when he was 12 months. Everyday I pointed to each picture and sang the song for the days, or said the numbers. And from time to time I changed them for new stuff like the body parts (pictures and identifying them). And yes, he knew it, he could sing it or say it.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Dec 30, 2014 11:08:43 GMT 9

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Post by M.Martí on Dec 30, 2014 11:08:43 GMT 9

Before reading this post, I heard about this from you during the weekend, before becoming a member here, while listening to your podcast at Bilingual Kids Rock, and thought it was a fantastic idea.

We have our "mommy's preschool" but right now it's just stuff in English (in terms of stuff on the walls), and my teaching is always in Spanglish.

Some stuff in English and some in Spanish. I am going back to put Spanish stuff on the walls. Like I said before, I did it without knowing it.

Yesterday I wrote some info about Puerto Rico on a dry/erase board and gave it to my kids while they were in the bathroom, and it worked. Now I am going to look out for what I want them to read about, mostly about our history and culture.

Thanks, Adam.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Dec 30, 2014 11:28:00 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Dec 30, 2014 11:28:00 GMT 9

Marielys, you're welcome! The trick, I think, is keeping as conscious and proactive as we can in our daily efforts. The more we're able to do this, the more we can maximize our children's language development and their bilingual ability over time.

Keep up your good efforts to use "captive reading" inside and outside the home!

Reina Senior Keeper Posts: 177 Country (residing now): The Netherlands Country (originally from): Spain Children, Ages: Dirk and Antonio (twins, 7 years old) Majority Language: Dutch Minority Language(s): Spanish	Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jan 28, 2015 19:30:24 GMT 9 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Reina on Jan 28, 2015 19:30:24 GMT 9 Absolutely in our agenda when the Dutch (majority) reading is going smoothly. At the moment we are concentrating there but after the summer I want to start with captive reading. I find it a great idea.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 6, 2016 18:57:46 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Jul 6, 2016 18:57:46 GMT 9

I made a new post about captive reading...

The Larger Arc of Captive Reading—and Our Lives As Human Beings
I've come to the final step of my longtime efforts using captive reading to promote the language and literacy development of my kids.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 19, 2016 0:05:14 GMT 9

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Post by Mayken on Jul 19, 2016 0:05:14 GMT 9

My daughter got her hands on the ML primer I bought for her when she starts school after the summer holidays, and she started reading!

Intrigued, I asked a friend in our ml country what her kid had as a primer in grade 1 and got that one too - same result.

So I figure she's ready for some captive reading in the bathroom.

Now my question: what do I start with? I've tried some simple sentences so far, like "[my daughter's name] has a cow." - "The cow is called Lola." (In our ml German, of course.)

Am I on the right track?

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 19, 2016 6:19:24 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Jul 19, 2016 6:19:24 GMT 9

Mayken, I bet you and your daughter will have a lot of fun with captive reading over the years ahead! It won't be long before you can start writing lively serial stories for her!

Early on, though, more simple material might be...

1. The kind of silly personal messages you've already begun writing.

2. Requests for her to carry out, like "Find something in the house that's red and bring it to me" or, even more involved, "Find something in the house that's red and bring it to me, then do a silly dance on one foot." The value of such requests, too, is that we know the child is reading and comprehending the material when the request is successfully carried out.

3. In a similar vein, instructions can be used that provide a reward or payoff, such as "Look under the sofa and you'll find a little treat" or "Do you know where your bunny is? He's hiding behind a plant in the kitchen."

4. Riddles about animals are useful and engaging, too, like "What animal is big and gray and has a trunk?" (yes, an elephant). You could also make up riddles that combine two animals in a playful way, like "What animal is big and gray, has a trunk, can fly, and makes honey?" (yes, an elephant-bee). These riddles for silly, combined animals were a winner with my own children and led to an oral game of this, too, at mealtimes. Like requests and instructions, riddles (which we can invent about anything, really) also spur use of the minority language beyond the captive reading time itself when the children come to us to confirm the answer. In other words, it can be doubly productive when captive reading prompts interaction, too.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 19, 2016 23:18:41 GMT 9

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Post by Mayken on Jul 19, 2016 23:18:41 GMT 9

Thank you Adam!

I remember that elephant-bee from Bilingual Monkeys.

I'll continue with the short sentences for the time being and then move up to the request ones (love that idea!) once she's a bit more advanced in reading. Right now she's at the word-by-word stage, and a four-word sentence is a big task already.

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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 20, 2016 6:34:18 GMT 9

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Post by Adam Beck on Jul 20, 2016 6:34:18 GMT 9

Mayken, I'm afraid my example sentences were a bit wordy and I should have stressed the importance of carefully crafting such sentences so the child can read them comfortably at her current level of ability. Too easy is always better than too hard because, of course, we're trying to convey the idea that "reading is fun" not "reading is a chore".

Mayken Star Keeper Cool in two languages! Posts: 1,286 Country (residing now): France Country (originally from): Germany Children, Ages: Girl, 14 Majority Language: French Minority Language(s): German (and learning English)	Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 20, 2016 21:55:15 GMT 9 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Mayken on Jul 20, 2016 21:55:15 GMT 9 My daughter is eager to read the new sentence when she sees it for the first time. Yesterday she had the one "Lola [the cow] is black and white." Which reminds me that I have to write a new sentence today...
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Adam Beck Head Keeper Author of "Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability" and "Bilingual Success Stories Around the World" Posts: 2,176 Country (residing now): Japan Country (originally from): USA Children, Ages: Girl, 19 and Boy, 16 Majority Language: Japanese Minority Language(s): English, Spanish	Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Jul 21, 2016 4:53:00 GMT 9 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Adam Beck on Jul 21, 2016 4:53:00 GMT 9 You're off to a promising start, Mayken! Keep it going, day after day!
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Challenge #4: Make Use of Captive Reading Oct 20, 2016 5:26:35 GMT 9

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Post by Mayken on Oct 20, 2016 5:26:35 GMT 9

We're advancing slowly with our captive reading story because I keep forgetting to print out the next part, but today I set up a new reading project. My daughter keeps confusing the letters B and D (both upper- and lower-case), so I came up with a funny sentence for each:

(Translation: "Beaver Boris builds lodges" and "The fat dragons are napping")

She hasn't seen it yet, but I hope these will do the trick.

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