Ways to Support Your Child’s Reading at Home
Here are a few helpful hints to support your child’s reading development at home:
Here are a few helpful hints to support your child’s reading development at home:
- Have your child do a picture walk before reading the text. This is when your child looks at the pictures and tells the story without reading the words.
- Help your child sound out the words they are stuck on. If it is a word that you can’t sound out, tell them the word and have them practice reading it.
- Names can be really tricky. Before your child reads their book, look through it and talk about the names. This will help your child be familiar with the name when they come to the word in the text.
- As your child reads, ask him or her to point under every word. Have your child put the witch finger on his or her index finger and use it to point under words.
- Tell me what happened in the story (focus on important details from the beginning, middle and end).
- Does this story remind you of anything? (Focus on helping your child make a personal connection with the text or a connection to another text they’ve read.)
- What was your favorite part? Why?