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Have your child read and re-read a short passage every night in order to improve their reading accuracy, rate and literal comprehension.
Ask them comprehension questions about what they read!
Types of comprehension questions
Types of comprehension questions
Use these question stems to probe your child's thinking as they read, and after they read.
Remember?
Remember?
Can they recall the story's events?
Understand?
Understand?
Do they understand the story's events?
Apply?
Apply?
Can they apply their thinking from other contexts?
Analyze?
Analyze?
Can they analyze parts of the text and how it all fits together?
Evaluate?
Evaluate?
Can they make judgements based on inferences?
Create?
Create?
Do they understand so well that they can use what they learned to CREATE!?
Use the above vocabulary model, or make your own at home, to learn and think about new vocabulary words as you read. Compile these in a notebook to expand your child's lexicon!
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