These are some ideas and suggestions to help your child succeed in Reading!
Enjoy reading to your child everyday? By asking some simple questions helps to enhance your child's reading skills along with building upon their thinking strategies.
After reading a story- have your child draw a picture of their favorite character in that story and then write a simple sentence about them. If your child needs challenging have them write 3-5 sentences about the story, characters or if they liked the story while explaining why they did or didn't like it
Listen to your child read and encourage them along the way- Assisting when needing too and Building Confidence and Praising when they read words to you! (No matter how many, small, or big).
Enjoy reading to your child everyday? By asking some simple questions helps to enhance your child's reading skills along with building upon their thinking strategies.
- Before reading a book- Ask Your child by looking at the cover of the book what do they think the story will be about. Point out the Author and what the Author does as well as the illustrator and what their part is in the book.
- Discuss that we read Left to Right use your finger to point to each word while reading so that your child visualizes the direction and follows along with you while you read.
- During reading time- you may ask questions like:
- What do you think will happen next?
- Why do you think the character did that?
- Discuss big words that your child may not understand the meaning of and explain what they mean in context to the story.
- After reading you may ask the following:
- Who were the main characters in the story?
- Where do you think the story took place?
- Can you explain to me what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story?
- Compare the characters- How where they alike or different?
- Play a simple Letter/Sound Recognition Game- Say "I 'm thinking of a letter that sounds like mmmmmm." Your child then states the letter. You can also say I'm thinking of the letter that looks like this and write or "sky write" it for them and ask them to tell you the letter and it's sound.
- Tracing letters in Sand, Shaving Cream, Sugar- Have your child trace with a finger letters while stating what letter they are making in the different variety of items.
- Practice sight words wherever you are- Have your child say the simple sight words when you see them. They are Everywhere we look!
- Use magnetic letters, or flashcards to help build your child's knowledge of letters and sounds.
- Complete a letter hunt- Using a book or magazine, newspaper ask your child to find as many of the letter "n" (use different letters) as they can and circle, then go back and count how many of those particular letters they found. Can also do this game using sight words- look for a particular sight word and then count how many times you found that sight word.
- Play rhyming games with your child. Pick a word and see how many other words you can think of that rhyme with it. Or tell your child two words and have them tell you if they rhyme or not.
- Practice clapping out the syllables in a given word. Can do this using family names and then see whose name has the most syllables in their name.
- Encourage your child to draw pictures and label them.
- Practice writing your child name by having them trace it and then write it on their own.
After reading a story- have your child draw a picture of their favorite character in that story and then write a simple sentence about them. If your child needs challenging have them write 3-5 sentences about the story, characters or if they liked the story while explaining why they did or didn't like it
Listen to your child read and encourage them along the way- Assisting when needing too and Building Confidence and Praising when they read words to you! (No matter how many, small, or big).