Reading with Your Child at Home
For Parents with K-2 Students
Selecting Texts
Look for books that:
Supporting Your Child
Selecting Texts
Look for books that:
- Rhyme
- Have predictable stories and repeated phrases
- Have colorful illustrations
- Extend personal experiences
Supporting Your Child
- Read to your child every day.
- Find a comfortable place to read.
- Reading aloud helps children expand their vocabulary, appreciate books and other texts, understand new ideas and concepts, and learn more about the world around them.
- Encourage your child to read along when they feel comfortable with the text and praise all attempts.
- Talk about the characters, people, and events and encourage your child to express their opinions about books.
Reading at Home
Grades 3-5
How to support Your Child
Types of Texts
Library book
Books from school
Books that are now films
Newspapers
Recipe books
Magazines, comics, dictionaries, street directions, atlases
Favorite authors
CD-ROMs and websites of book publishers
Information from websites
- Read to or with your child regularly or let him or her read to you.
- Expose your child to a wide variety of texts and encourage him/her to read new material.
- Encourage your child to talk about how characters or people are represented in texts,a and make comparisons with real life.
- Talk about plots, settings, characters, events, and information.
- Encourage your child to express and justify his or her reactions to the texts he or she read.
- Point out and discuss words that you think your child will not understand.
- Talk about how to find information in different text, e.g., using the index, looking for headings.
Types of Texts
Library book
Books from school
Books that are now films
Newspapers
Recipe books
Magazines, comics, dictionaries, street directions, atlases
Favorite authors
CD-ROMs and websites of book publishers
Information from websites
When viewing television with your child remember these questions:
(Fiction)
(Fiction)
- Were you able to predict the ending of this TV show? Explain
- Compare the main character with someone you know. Tell how they are alike and different.
- Would you recommend this TV show to a friend? Tell why or why not by using specific examples from the show.
- What is the message from this movie
Think about what you just saw. If you were to tell your friend about it, what would you say?
Identify the most important idea in this movie.
What information about _______ could someone learn by watching this show?
Explain how your knowledge of _______ has changed or remained the same based on what you learned from this show.
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Fluency and Reading
Becoming a fluent reader is important to comprehension. Below are some simple activities to help your child read more fluently.
* Have your child re-read a familiar book.
* Read along with your child to help them read more smoothly.
* Singing songs with children provides a model of fluent reading and speaking.