Reading for enjoyment is the #1 thing your child can do to help prepare them for NC check-ins and EOGs!

Reading for Information (Nonfiction):

• Listen to nonfiction audio books in the car, while walking, or when relaxing.

• Read a news article or nonfiction text with your child and ask them questions based on what you have read. Encourage them to show you where they found their answer.

• Ask your child what the main idea of the text is and have them support it with evidence.

• After reading several nonfiction texts with your child, ask them to compare and contrast the individuals, events, or concepts in the text.

• Ask your child what the purpose of writing the article was, ask them to support their answer with evidence.

Language and Vocabulary:

• Encourage your child to identify unknown words using context clues, identifying prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

• Discuss figurative language (similes and metaphors) that you use with your child, sharing the meanings of the figurative language. Remind your child that a simile is comparing two things using like or as. While a metaphor is comparing two things without using like or as. 

Reading for Literature (Fiction):

• Read a variety of fiction texts with your child and discuss together what happened in the story.

• Ask your child the theme of the story they read and ask them to provide you evidence of the theme.

• Read a fiction text with your child and ask them to compare and contrast two characters within the text.

• Ask your child how the narrator's point of view impacts the events in the text.

• Visit the public library to find new and fun books to read.