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Strategies for Reading with Your Child

Children of all ages benefit from quality time reading with adults.  Here are some strategies you can easily incorporate into the special time you spend reading with your child.
 

Prior to Reading

1. Preview the title and cover art.

2. Read the summary, dedication, and table of contents.

3. Read about the author and illustrator.

4. Take a picture walk through the story.

5. Make predictions about what will happen in the story.

6. Decide how the story will be read.

Tag Team Reading – The child and parent alternate reading.

Choral Reading – The child and parent reading simultaneously.

Echo Reading – The parent reads a section aloud and then the child re-reads that same section aloud.  This pattern continues so that the child can improve fluency, cadence, and vocal inflection as modeled by the parent.
 

During Reading

1. Self-Monitor:  Help your child ask him/herself if the passage is making sense.  Re-read if necessary.  Do this periodically throughout the reading.

2. Visualize:  Make a movie in your head to see what is happening.

3. Make Connections:  Compare the text/self, text/text, and text/world.

4. Question:  Ask your child different types of questions. (Who?  What?  When?  Where?  Why?  How?)

5. Model Voice:  Show how to read with expression.

6. Use Clues:  Encourage your child to use picture and context clues to figure out unknown words.

7. Predict/Infer: Continue to make predictions using clues in the text throughout the story.

After Reading

1. Have your child re-tell the story to you.  Listen for main characters, setting, problem, main events, and solution.

2. Check predictions that were made before the reading of the story.

3. Continue to discuss connections that you or your child made.

4. Allow your child to re-read the story as many times as desired.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO HAVE FUN AND ENJOY READING TOGETHER!

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