Reading Strategies
Parental Tips for Nurturing your Growing Readers:
1. Read with your children at least once every day
2. Make sure they have plenty to read
3. Notice what interests your child, and help them find books about those things
4. Respect your child's choices (There is nothing wrong with series fiction if that's what keeps a young reader turning the pages.)
5. Praise your children's efforts
6. Help your child build a personal library
7. Check up on your children's progress
8. Go places and do things with your children to build their background knowledge and vocabulary
9. Be a reading role model
10. Continue reading aloud to older children
11. Encourage writing along with reading
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What do you do when you come to a word you don’t know? ___________________ Look at the picture. Think about the story.
Go Back
Get your mouth ready. Point and slide under the word.
Read to the end of the sentence.
Try a word. Does it make sense? Does it sound like language? Do the letters match?
Go on.
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