Reading Suggestions for Parents

Reading Suggestions for Parents

Suggestions to help build your child's reading skills:

Kindergarten:

• Read predictable books to your child. Teach him to hear and say repeating words, such as names for colors, numbers, letters and animals. Predictable books help children to understand how stories progress. A child easily learns familiar phrases and repeats them, pretending to read.
• Practice the sounds of language by reading books with rhymes and playing simple word games (i.e. How many words can you make up that sound like the word "bat"? )

First Grade:

• Point out the letter-sound relationships your child is learning on labels, boxes, newspapers and magazines.
• Listen to your child read words and books from school. Be patient and listen as he practices. Let him know you are proud of his reading.

Second & Third Grades

• Build reading accuracy by having your child read aloud and point out words she missed and help her read words correctly. If you stop to focus on a word, have your child reread the whole sentence to be sure she understands the meaning.

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Pause, Prompt and Praise Procedure

• Look at the picture
• Check the first letter
• Look for a chunk you know
• Think about the story and think what makes sense
• Search through the whole word
• See if it looks right
• See if it sounds right

PRAISE

1.Praise when your child reads well.

"I like the way your read that.

2. Praise when your child corrects him/herself.

"You knew that word didn't say ____." "You went back there and fixed it yourself."

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