Dear Families,
It is very beneficial for your child to be reading stories that interest him/her as well as those that are at your child’s independent reading level. Below is a good web site that will allow you to find stories at your child’s reading level. You will also find some questions that you can discuss with your child while you are reading with him/her.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Happy Reading!
K. DeLuca
https://bookwizard.scholastic.com
Utilizing Reading Strategies
We have been learning several different reading strategies in school. Please encourage your child to:
Before Reading:
Make predictions using the front cover, back cover, pictures, title, blurb on the back, and the first page
Ask questions about the story
During Reading:
Make new predictions and revise old ones
Ask questions about events, characters, setting, etcetera
Make connections. This story reminds me of…
Text to Text (the story reminds you of another book)
Text to World (the story reminds you of anything in the world)
Text to Self (the story reminds you of something in your life)
Visualize story events using your senses
Draw conclusions
After Reading
Summarize story events
Discuss story elements
Ask questions
See if the predictions occurred
Reading Response Discussion Questions
After reading, I wonder…
Describe the setting – when and where the story takes place
Describe your least favorite character and explain why.
Describe your most favorite character and explain why.
How did the reading make you feel? Why?
If you could talk to the author, what questions would you ask? Why?
If you could talk to the author, what would you want to tell them about?
If you were a character in this book, who would you be? Why?
Tell me three new words that you learned from your reading. Can you tell what they mean by using context clues?
List three questions you have about what you read.
Tell me about the main character. What kind of person is he/she?
Some connections I can make about the story are…
What was your favorite part of the book? Why?
What was your least favorite part of the book? Why?
What was going through your mind as you read?
Who are the characters? Describe who they are, what they look like and why are they important?
Would you be friends with the main character? Why or why not?
Summarize what you just read. Make me want to read it!
What are some things you visualized while you were reading?
Tell me something important from the story. Why do you think that was an important part of the story?
What surprised you in the story?
If the story were to continue, what do you think would happen next?
Tell me about a story that you know that is like this one.
What do you think will happen next time?
What do you think the character was thinking when ______?
If you were (character’s name), what would you have done?
What did you learn that you didn’t know before?
Would you recommend this story to others? Why or why not?
How would you change the story’s ending?
What else would you like to learn about this topic?
Was it a good title? Why or why not? If not, what title(s) would you give it?
What do you think was the hardest word in the story? What do you think it means?