Tips for Reading
Parents always ask what they can do at home to help their child read.
It is very important that parents read with and to their children!
When helping your child at home, the following strategies may be used to decode unknown words:
Tell the child to look at the picture. You may tell the child the word is something that can be seen in the picture, if that is the case.
Tell the child to look for chunks in the word, such as it in sit, at in mat, or and and ing in standing.
Ask the child to get his/her mouth ready to say the word by shaping the mouth for the beginning letter.
Ask the child if the word looks like another word she/he knows. Does bed look like red?, for example.
Ask the child to go on and read to the end of the sentence. Often by reading the other words in context, the child can figure out the unknown word.
If the child says the wrong word while reading, ask questions like:
Does it make sense?
Does it sound right?
Does it look right?
Here is a printed version from Ms. Ross.
Also,
Here is a printed star version.
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Strategies
When I get stuck on a word in a book,
There are lots of things I can do.
I can do them all, please, by myself;
I don't need help from you.
I can look at the picture to get a hint.
Or think what the story's about.
I can "get my mouth ready" to say the first letter.
A kind of "sounding out."
I can chop up the words into smaller parts,
Like on or ing or ly,
Or find smaller words in compound words
Like raincoat and bumblebee.
I can think of a word that makes sense in that place,
Guess or say "blank" and read on
Until the sentence has reached its end,
Then go back and try these on:
"Does it make sense?"
"Can we say it that way?"
"Does it look right to me?"
Chances are the right word will pop out like the sun
In my own mind, can't you see?
If I've thought of and tried out most of these things
And I still do not know what to do,
Then I may turn around and ask
For some help to get me through.
Jill Marie Warner
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Our goal in reading is to read for comprehension. Reading comprehension depends upon being able to successfully and appropriately use a number of strategies:
accessing prior knowledge, creating mental images of the information, making predictions and inferences, monitoring understanding, and using "fix-up strategies when necessary. A reader should be thinking all the time they are reading.
Here are some thinking strategies to use while reading with your child:
Make predictions about the story.
What is this story about?
What happens in the beginning, middle, and end?
Retell the story in your own words.
Tell me about the characters.
Did you like the story. Why? Why not?
Does this book make you think of something else?
Engage your child in conversation while reading!
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