Reading+at+Home

**Reading at Home ** **Three-ways for your child to Read Independently using  Read-to-Self or  Read-to-Someone: **


 * 1. Look at the pictures (Engage with the text: make comments, notice non-fiction features, tell the story using the pictures, ask questions, make noticings. This is not just for flipping through the pages at rapid speed:) This works well with non-fiction &/or high-interest books! **


 * 2. Read the words (books that are at your child's instructional-independent level in which they can read 95% or more of the words) **


 * 3. Retell the story (favorites that the child knows well and can use the pictures &/or words to retell the story) **
 * <span style="color: #c90ec9; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 1.5;">Decoding strategies that support accuracy: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Eagle Eye: Use the picture to help you figure out the word. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Lips the Fish: Get you mouth ready to say the first sound in the word. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chunky Monkey: Find a chunk(s) in the word that you already know. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Stretchy Snake: Stretch out all of the sounds in the word and then put them all together. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Trying Lion: Try a word that makes sense in the sentence. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Skippy Frog: Skip the word and read on. Come back to the word to see what makes sense. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Helpful Kangaroo: After using all of the above strategies, ask for help. **


 * <span style="color: #c90ec9; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Reading Ideas to Incorporate into Your Daily Schedule: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Place books in places your child will be (toy box, beside bed, kitchen, living room, car). You can even organize them by themes for their location (cookbooks in kitchen, bedtime stories by bed, etc.) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Carry books along to appointments or on road trips. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Put books beside the bathtub that can withstand getting wet. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Get books on tape or CD to listen to in the car or any other time. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read everyday for practical purposes (grocery list, errand list, recipes, road signs, etc.) **

<span style="color: #c90ec9; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 23px;">**Ways to Help your Child Develop a love of Reading**:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read several books around one topic. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read several books by one author. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read several books in one genre (non-fiction, poetry, fairy tales, realistic fiction, historical fiction, plays, etc.) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read to someone/ partner read. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read to a sibling. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read the same book and focus on learning/ talking about something new. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Make the reading environment pleasurable (cozy chair, special snack, plants, stuffed animals) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Encourage different types of reading materials (newspapers, magazines, appropriate/ child-friendly websites) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Visit the library often. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Visit a favorite author's website or go to a book signing. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Rotate books in your child's personal library based on interest or current events (bringing new books out and putting other books away is exciting for children and keeps their library fresh). **


 * <span style="color: #c90ec9; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Some Ways to Read with Your Child: **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Echo Reading: Parent reads one line at a time while pointing to words and child echoes same line back, pointing to words. **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Choral Reading: Parent & child read aloud in unison, either or both can point to words. **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Popcorn Reading: Child reads until she comes to a word she doesn't know or until she decides to switch readers and then the parent reads, and the cycle continues. **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Storytelling: The parent reads the story to the child. Parent stops periodically to discuss events happening. Then the child retells the story with prompts. **
 * 5) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reader's Theater: The parent & child take on the roles of the characters in the story and read their parts. This works best with texts heavy in dialogue. **
 * 6) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chanting: The parent & child chant in unison stories, parts of stories, or poems which lend themselves to reading with rhythm. **


 * <span style="color: #c90ec9; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 23px;">Ways to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read More!!! - Make reading fun, read together everyday, notice what your child is doing well, and let your child see you reading. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ask questions before, during & after reading (see below for examples) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Make predictions during reading. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Point to the words with your "Reading Finger" **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Visualize and create sensory images. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monitor comprehension & use the decoding strategies above for miscues (Does that make sense? Do the letters match the sound? Is there another word that would work better?) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Determine what is important in text (main ideas, key words, themes & patterns) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Retell the story (characters, setting, problem/ solution, details or events, conclusion) **


 * <span style="color: #c90ec9; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Questions to Use: **
 * <span style="color: #2d11ed; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Before Reading **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What do you think this book will be about? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What do you think will happen to the character on the cover? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What does the title mean? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Why do you think the author chose that title? **


 * <span style="color: #2d11ed; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">During Reading **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Why does (character) look ? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What is (character) looking for, doing? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What does (vocabulary word) mean? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Where is (character) going? Why? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Why is the word (vocabulary) in bold, italicized? **


 * <span style="color: #2d11ed; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">After Reading **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What was the title and who was the author of the book? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Who are the characters? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Name the main character in the story? How do you know? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What is the setting of the story (where does the story take place)? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Re-tell three important events in the story. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What is the problem in the story? How did it get solved? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">How did the other characters help the main character? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Is this book fiction or non-fiction? How can you tell? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What are some of the non-fiction features in the book (table of contents, real photographs, bold/ italicized words, glossary, captions, How-to, parts of/ labels). **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">How do the non-fiction features help you as a reader? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What connections can you make and how does that help you understand this book? (Specify text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world) **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">If you were this author, what parts would you change and why? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">What was your favorite part of the book? Why? **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Would you recommend this book to a friend? Tell why or why not using details and examples. **


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">*Not all questions will apply to every book, so select a few each time your child reads for a quality comprehension focus* **