Reading at home should be an enjoyable, relaxing time spent between parent and child. It's all about fostering a love of reading while improving fluency, accuracy and comprehension.
1) Get your mouth ready, can you stretch it out?
2) What is the first and last sound?
3) What word would make sense?
4) Can you find any smaller/other words inside this bigger/tricky word?
5) Does it have a pattern that you have seen in other words? (such as, an, ack)
6) How does the word begin?
7) You said ___ does that make sense?
8) What word would make sense that would start with these sounds?
9) Look at the picture for clues
Five Finger Rule
if your child is not sure if the book is "just right" they can use the Five Finger Rule to help decide:
Open to a page of the book, begin reading. Each time you come to a word you don’t know/doesn't sound right and so on, hold up 1 finger
After you finish reading the page, check to see how many fingers you are holding up
Too Easy = 0 - 1 fingers
Just Right = 2 - 3 fingers
Too Hard = 4 - 5 fingers
2) What is the first and last sound?
3) What word would make sense?
4) Can you find any smaller/other words inside this bigger/tricky word?
5) Does it have a pattern that you have seen in other words? (such as, an, ack)
6) How does the word begin?
7) You said ___ does that make sense?
8) What word would make sense that would start with these sounds?
9) Look at the picture for clues
Five Finger Rule
if your child is not sure if the book is "just right" they can use the Five Finger Rule to help decide:
Open to a page of the book, begin reading. Each time you come to a word you don’t know/doesn't sound right and so on, hold up 1 finger
After you finish reading the page, check to see how many fingers you are holding up
Too Easy = 0 - 1 fingers
Just Right = 2 - 3 fingers
Too Hard = 4 - 5 fingers
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