Your Family Time! Family time is so important… Why not make reading part of this valuable time with your kids? Here are some tips for integrating reading into our daily family Choose Books That Are activities: At An Appropriate - Read bedtime stories Reading Level - Play a board game - Visit your local library For Your Child - Read a recipe and cook - Use the five finger rule. something yummy together! Open the book to any - Create a comfy reading space page and ask your child in your home. to read. Put up a finger - Put your child in charge of every time your child reading the grocery list at the does not know a word. If store. you have put up more than five fingers before Keep plenty of reading the end of the page, materials in your home: - this book is too hard for books, magazines, your child. newspapers, and comic - Choose books that match books. Children enjoy your child’s likes and having a variety of interests. reading materials! @ All Students Can SHINE 2014 Check For 15-20 Understanding minutes is Start the book by making plenty for predictions. What do you a beginning think will happen in this story? reader! Ask questions and make comments during the reading process. How To Read With A After reading a book, have Beginning Reader: your child tell you the events • Encourage your child to use from the story in the correct his/her finger to point to each order. word. What was the problem in this • Read a sentence and have your story? child repeat it. How did the character feel • Take turns reading a sentence when…? each or a page each. Encourage your child to make • Talk about the story as you connections. Does this story read it. What do you think will remind you of another book happen next? What does this you read, an event in your life, story remind you of? How do a movie? you think this character feels? • Don’t be afraid to read the same book again! Repeated reading helps build reading fluency!
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