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How To Help at Home: Before Reading

This document provides tips for parents to help their children with reading at home. It recommends reading with children every night to build knowledge and family bonds. Parents should have conversations with children about what they read to improve vocabulary and comprehension. The prompts suggest asking questions before, during, and after reading about topics like predictions, character feelings, favorite parts, and lessons learned. For nonfiction books, additional questions focus on main ideas, glossary terms, what the author wanted to teach, and generating further questions.

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How To Help at Home: Before Reading

This document provides tips for parents to help their children with reading at home. It recommends reading with children every night to build knowledge and family bonds. Parents should have conversations with children about what they read to improve vocabulary and comprehension. The prompts suggest asking questions before, during, and after reading about topics like predictions, character feelings, favorite parts, and lessons learned. For nonfiction books, additional questions focus on main ideas, glossary terms, what the author wanted to teach, and generating further questions.

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How to Help at Home

Please plan to read with your child every night. Reading is a very important activity to build knowledge and build a bond
with your child that nothing can replace!

Children need to talk about the selections they read in order to improve vocabulary and comprehension. Use the
prompts below to help your child.
Before reading:

Look at the cover and read the title. What do you think this book will be about?
Glance through the selection to look over any pictures, maps, or illustrations.
What genre is this book?

What do you know about this topic? (nonfiction)

Look at the sections and headings in this book. How do they help you read it? (nonfiction)
During reading:

What do you think will happen next?


What do you wonder about?

How do you think (characters name) is feeling?


What kind of person is (characters name)?
After reading:

Talk about what happened in the story (beginning, middle, end).


Was there a problem? How was it solved?
What was your favorite part?

What lesson is the author trying to teach through this story?


Is this a good title for this story? Why (not)?

How did the character/s change in this book? Why did they change?
What was the most important part of the story and why?
Talk about what you learned from this story. (nonfiction)
What was the main idea of this book? (nonfiction)

Turn to the glossary in the back of the book. What kind of information does it give you? Give an example of a word
from the glossary. (nonfiction)

What did the writer want you to learn from this book? (nonfiction)

What is a question you still have about (topic of the book)? (nonfiction)

Show the sections of the book and tell the kind of information in each. (nonfiction)

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