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Reading Parent Guide

This document provides tips for reading aloud with children, including pointing out title, author, and illustrations; using expression; and letting children comment. It suggests extending reading through activities like creating new stories about characters, changing one story element, rereading favorites, connecting to personal experiences, and asking questions. The overall message is that reading aloud benefits literacy and strengthens the parent-child bond.

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Reading Parent Guide

This document provides tips for reading aloud with children, including pointing out title, author, and illustrations; using expression; and letting children comment. It suggests extending reading through activities like creating new stories about characters, changing one story element, rereading favorites, connecting to personal experiences, and asking questions. The overall message is that reading aloud benefits literacy and strengthens the parent-child bond.

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This guide will give tips on what to do when reading aloud.

However, these tips are also a helpful guide for discussing a


book with your child has read independently.

Children in fifth grade still love to be read to. Reading


aloud with children gives us many opportunities to advance a
childs literacy. Through our interactions with a child, we can:

develop general and literacy-related vocabulary


develop story comprehension skills
develop an understanding of the structure of stories
strengthen the parent-child bond
increase word recognition skills
develop an understanding of the writing process

Parents play just as important a role in their childs literacy


development. They, too, need to read aloud to their children so
that the process of becoming literate can move forward. The
time a parent takes to read to their child is never wasted. That
time stays with the child, goes with him to school, and stays
with him for the rest of his life. That time reminds the child that
the most important people in his life, his parents, think that
reading is a worthwhile pursuit, one that can make them turn of
the TV, put aside their work, and dedicate time to only them.

What Can You Do When Reading With Your Child?

Try to remember to do the following when you read aloud to or


with your child:
point out the title
point out the author
point out the illustrator
read the dedication, if any
look at the cover illustration and predict what will happen in
the story
look at the story pictures before you read and predict what
will happen in the story
use expression!
let your child take the lead sometimes by letting them
comment or ask questions as you read

Activities to Extend Your Childs Reading

Create a New Story


Talk about the characters in the story. Describe them, using
character traits such as silly, kind, foolish, curious, or patient.
Make up a new story about the character by imagining what
they might do next. For example, after reading Goldilocks and
the Three Bears, tell what Goldilocks might do when she visits a
zoo and sees the bears there. What will happen when she goes
home and tells her parents, or goes to school and tells her
classmates what happened to her? What will the bears do to
repair their damages and protect themselves from future
intruders?

Change One Element


The main elements of a story are the characters, setting,
problem and solution. Try changing one of these to create a
new story. For example, after reading Little Red Riding Hood,
change the wolf to a pig or an eagle. How would the story be
diferent? Change the story so Grandma lives in an apartment
building instead of the woods. Could the problem be Little Red
Riding Hood gets lost instead of the wolf trying to eat her?

Rereading
Many times a child will decide that a particular story is their
absolute favorite, and ask you to read it again. Our advice is
to do exactly what they asked, even if it means you both know
the words by heart. This can be tedious for the parent, but the
benefits to the child can be immeasurable. Often, they will
begin to notice particular words, or letters, and come to know
them well. What an easy way to increase a childs vocabulary!
They also develop a love for a good story, and this increases
their willingness to read on their own later in life.

Put Yourself in the Story


Connect the story to personal knowledge. Your child is able
to make connections to the stories that you read to them
because of their life experiences. You can help them connect
the storyline to real life events or people with the use of
questions like these:
Did something like this ever happen to you?
Do any of the characters remind you of anyone you
know?

If your child cant respond, you can make connections


yourself with statements like these:
That character reminds me of________
because__________.
This _________ is like ours because.

Ask Questions
Good readers ask questions while they read. Model your
own questions for your child, and they will soon do the same.
Some ways to share your questions might be:
I wonder why
What if..
What do you think will happen next?
Why do you think.

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