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Helping With Reading at Home
Important Things to Help With Your Child’s Reading at Home
Strongly encourage your child to read everyday. If possible, read with her/him. Reading out loud is fun but it is also important for your child to practice silent reading. As much as possible have your child read a text that is at an appropriate reading level. If it is too hard it will cause frustration. If it is too easy it will not help your child to grow as a reader. I can help you choose books and I will lend some out if you wish. Have your child read a variety of kinds of texts.
Examples of kinds of texts:
non-fiction information books
short novels
magazines
newspaper headlines and articles
comics
picture books
game instructions
websites
Important skills to practice at home:
1. Visualizing: From time to time read out loud to your child and have your child “visualize”. Visualizing is like playing a movie inside your head. This will teach your child to visualize when reading on his/her own. Once a child learns to create pictures, smells and sounds inside her/his head, understanding will improve.
2. Summarizing: Ask your child to summarize what she/he has just read. Your child should summarize the text in the order that she/he read it. It is helpful if you have also read the text. If your child leaves parts out or gets the order of events confused, ask your child questions to help him/her remember. Then ask your child to summarize again with this new information included.
To practice summarizing, ask your child:
What is the main idea?
What is the setting?
Who are the characters?
What is the problem?
How is the problem resolved?
What type of text is this? (see list above)
3. Making Connections: Encourage your child to make connections to herself/himself, to other books your child has read, and to things out in the world. At school we call these connections “text to self”, “text to text” and “text to world”.
To encourage making connections, ask your child:
Does this book remind you of anything else you read? Why?
Does this story remind you of anything you have done or seen? Why? Tell me more!
4. Asking Questions and Inferring: Encourage your child to make inferences about things that are not stated in the reading. You can also let your child know what questions you have.
To encourage asking questions and inferring, ask your child:
What questions do you have at the end of this reading?
Why do you think the main character did that?
How did you feel when…?
What do you think happened next?
Who is telling the story?
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By: m.c on May 7, 2008
at 7:45 pm
how did you make thi website
By: m.c on May 7, 2008
at 8:49 pm
Hi MC,
Making the website was easy. Next year you will get to make one too.
Mr. M
By: room23century on May 8, 2008
at 6:22 am
Great idea! I love the blog, and I can’t wait to show the Grade Four kids at Signal Hill!!
By: Miss Niet on May 11, 2008
at 3:03 am
WOW !!!!!
Noorhan
By: noorhan on May 12, 2008
at 4:20 pm
Where did you find the pictures.
By: Boogi monster on May 12, 2008
at 5:57 pm
Where did get
the pictures.
By: Boogi monster on May 12, 2008
at 5:58 pm
I dont like homework Mr.Macklin!!
By: Jenezza on May 12, 2008
at 8:57 pm
Hey mr.m I already know how to read but I’m sure this will help that don’t know how to read.
By: Daniel on May 17, 2008
at 3:46 pm
Hi Mr M. I’m a teacher from Sydney Australia and i love how you are using your blog. I have set up my first blog and am attempting to bring staff from my school into this blog world because i think its a great teaching and learning tool. I would like to put you on my blogroll so my staff can view your blog. Is that ok with you? Please feel free to look around mine and give advice. We are very new to this.
By: msms on July 9, 2008
at 9:24 am
