Tracey (Wortham, 2006) suggest nine ideas that can be done by parent and child to tell the contents of the book:

1. Get your children to talk.

children learn through conversation and questions. Parents in this case is very important to feed children so happens two-way communication and respect from the various questions raised by children caused by their responses to books.

2. Help your children understand the story.

important for parents to help children understand the story, one example of a parent to explain the relationships between events in the story or the hero in the story. So that eventually the child understand about the content and direction of the story.

3. Praise your children.

Giving praise to the children, and parents need to show pride when the children questioned something from the story content. Parents are important to give children praise and regard the question as best questions. So with these efforts, children do not experience burnout and considers the question as something which we are proud for his parents.

4. Relate the book to your life.

Parents need to tell the children a variety of relationships from the story books with everyday life. Practice will help kids better understand what is told by the book, because there is a clear example of parents who have expressed in daily events as a comparison of the content of a story book.

5. Ask your questions During good children story book reading.

Parents are important to give the best questions to the children during storybook reading, namely a simple question may be so easy to understand children, with good and simple questions that will certainly help the children more aware of the intent question.

6. Wait for answer.

When parents give a child a question, it is imperative parents to wait and give time for the child to answer, in another sense parents do not act in an authoritarian to kids thinking, because by providing the flexibility and time for children to answer the question, will stimulate the child's ability in his think business.

7. With younger children, point to words you read Pls.

Parents are important to show the words or sentences in a book while reading the story, because with this appointment will help children to understand about these words or combination of letters forming the word, with the appointment of writing when reading from left to right, and when opened next page in trying to do after reading all the content pages.

8. Choose books carefully.

Choosing books for children in order to read story books together, it is very important. Many books are fun but sometimes it is not easy and it's hard to be ingested by children.

9. Have fun.

Parents need to show and create a pleasant atmosphere to the children when reading books together, so that reading the book with a pleasant experience.

Source:

Wortham, Sue C. (2006). Early Childhood Curriculum: Developmental Based for Learning and Teaching. USA: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall.