Reading aloud to your child provides a model of fluent reading. Additionally, it helps your child to associate the warm, happy feelings that they have for you with reading!

If you are unavailable to read or just want to switch it up, try one of the resources in the resource section.

Parents read a phrase, sentence, or paragraph and your child is asked to reread it matching your fluency, accuracy and expression.

Your child can also take the lead and the parent can echo the child.

The parent and child read the same text aloud together at the same time.

You can help your child to push their rate and expression through your lead.

The parent takes turns reading with the child.

Reading can be alternated sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page, or verse by verse.

The parent reads the text but omits random words.

The child follows along and immediately fills in the missing words.

The child chooses a sentence, page, or paragraph and practices reading it aloud several times.

The child reads the passage to the parent and talks to the parent about what happened in the passage.

Be sure to point out their specific strengths. Suggestions are on this site in the section on providing feedback.

Help them to use the sounds if they are stuck when decoding a new word.

There are many resources for jokes online. Look in fluency resources for ideas.

Read aloud jokes to one another.

Emphasis, phrasing, expression, and pausing are all keys to getting the laugh.

Whether you pull up a karaoke song on YouTube, have your own karaoke machine, or sing through a video game, reading and singing words is a great way to develop fluency.

Family sing-alongs with song sheets work too!