Reading Tips

Reading Tips

1. Model reading. I encourage parents to read to themselves and continue reading bed time stories to their children. If your child is already reading on his own, he may enjoy listening to you read a book on a more advanced level.

2. Listen to your child read for 15-20 minutes every night. You can even take turns reading pages with your child as long as they are reading too.

3. Purchase or borrow audio books from your local library. In this way, your child can listen to someone else read the book correctly while they follow along. A variation of this would be to make a recording of you reading the book.

4. Take a night out to enjoy reading. You can take your child to story time at the local library or take them to a book store. Most bookstores now have reading nooks in the children's department where children can relax and have fun reading a book.

5. Include reading in everything you do. Have your child help you read recipes or food containers. Have children read signs around town or practice letter identification sounds on items found at the restaurant table. Have children read the comics with you. You can circle or highlight words they can read as you go along.

6. Make flashcards and review sight words with your child on a regular basis. Some parents have even put sight words on popsicle sticks.

7. Repetition can be very important. It has been said that it takes 5-7 readings of a new book for students to be able to fluently read the text.

8. Check out my educational links for reading games your child can play on the internet.