Transcript Reading With Your Kids

Reading With Your Kids
A parent’s guide to
helping your child with
reading at home.
Choosing the Right Books
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'Nothing succeeds like success'. Until your child has built up
his or her confidence, it is better to keep to easier books.
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Struggling with a book with many unknown words is
pointless. Flow is lost, text cannot be understood and children
can easily become reluctant readers.
Point to the Words
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When reading a book where the print is large,
point word by word as you read- or have the child
point as they read.
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This will help the child learn that reading goes
from left to right and understand that the word he
or she says is the word he or she sees.
Using Your Letter Sounds Correctly
 Letter sounds should not have any extra
sounds attached to them
 Example of continuous sounds: s f l m n y
 Example of Stop sounds: b p c t d
How to Sound Out A Word
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When sounding out a word, the
sounds need to be as connected as
possible
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“Keep your motors running”
Example: f-a-n s -a -t m-e-n
s-i-t
When there is a “stop sound” first,
attach it to the next vowel sound right
away.
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Example: ca- t
te- n
pi- n
to- p
Helping your child take spoken words
apart and put them together.
 Help your child separate the sounds in words
 Listen for beginning and ending sounds
 Put separate sounds together.
Sight Words / Phonetic Words
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Phonetic Words can be sounded out
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Example: sit man lip
top
can bun
Sight Words must be memorized
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Example: they
said people their
Encourage the use of first and last letter
Encourage the use of pictures
Tell your child the word – have them repeat it
When to Correct?
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Don't correct too quickly.
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If your child makes an error suggest having another
go, searching the pictures for a clue, sounding out
the first letter or reading on before you 'tell' the
problem word.
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Especially encourage the use of sounding out for
phonetic words
How to Correct?
 Building reading accuracy.
 As your child is reading aloud, point out words he
missed and help him read words correctly.
 If you stop to focus on a word, have your child
reread the whole sentence to be sure he
understands the meaning.
Increasing Vocabulary
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Review new or unusual vocabulary words prior to
reading the story or passage
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Say the word
Ask kids to repeat the word
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Give examples, synonyms, or show pictures for
those words
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Discuss / ask questions about new words.
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Example: "This big house is called a palace. Who do you
think lives in a palace?"
How to Increase Comprehension
 Talk with your child about what she is reading.
 Talk about what happened in a story.
 Ask your child to retell the story.
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Ask about the characters, places, and events that took place.
 Encourage reading the story or passage more than once.
 Talk about new or unusual words.
Questions?
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Brenda Schell
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213-2005
[email protected]