READING HINTS

READING ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CHILD

At the Library: How To Help Your Child Pick A Book that Is Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard: The Five Finger Rule
How to Help Your Child Decide if a Book is Easy or Hard to Read
How to read easy medium and hard books with your child
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part I
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part II
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part III
Learning from the title of the story
Making Predictions Using the Picture on the Front Cover and in the Story
Learning from the title of the story Part II
Learning from the title of the story Part III
Author of the book
Keep a Journal of All the Books You Read Together
Learning the Parts of a Book
Different genres of books and writing
What kinds of writing
How to read a telephone book

 

READING A BOOK WITH YOUR CHILD
WORD STUDY
WRITING
UNDERSTANDING NUMBERS
NUMBERED GAMES
COUNTING BY MULTIPLES OF 2, 5, 10, 25
NUMBER WORDS AND NUMBERS
FRACTIONS
CALCULATORS
OPERATIONS
MEASUREMENT
TIME
LINEAR MEASUREMENT
TEMPERATURE
MONEY
PERIMETER AND AREA
CAPACITY, VOLUME AND MASS
GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE    
TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES
GRIDS AND COORDINATE GEOMETRY
DATA MANAGEMENT AND PROBABILITY
SCIENCE
RELATING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
MATTER AND MATERIALS
EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS

READING HINTS

READING ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CHILD

At the Library: How To Help Your Child Pick A Book that Is Not Too Easy and Not Too Hard: The Five Finger Rule
How to Help Your Child Decide if a Book is Easy or Hard to Read
How to read easy medium and hard books with your child
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part I
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part II
Helping your child with reading comprehension Part III
Learning from the title of the story
Making Predictions Using the Picture on the Front Cover and in the Story
Learning from the title of the story Part II
Learning from the title of the story Part III
Author of the book
Keep a Journal of All the Books You Read Together

READING ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR CHILD

Helping Your Child With Reading Comprehension (III)

The following grid will help you ask your child REALLLY good questions that will deepen her understanding of the story.

	Who	What	Where	When	Why	How
Is
Can
Should
Will
Did

Here is how to ask questions using the above chart:

1) Pick a word from the top row for the first word of your question
2) Pick a word from the first column for the second word of your question
3) Ask the rest of the question

If you read the story of “Little Red Riding Hood,” you might ask the following questions using the above chart:

1) Where did this story happen?
2) How will Little Red Riding Hood get away from the wolf?
3) What should Granny do when the wolf knocks on her door?
4) What will Granny do when the wolf knocks on her door? (notice how this is a little bit different from Question Number 3)

Hint: Some of these questions will work only if you ask them in the middle of the story (e.g., “What will happen next?” cannot be asked at the end of the story because your child will already know the answer?”

Hint: The answers to some of these questions can be found right in the book (E.g., “Where did this story happen? – The forest).  These are the easier questions.  You want to ask questions that are not found in the story – your child has to make them up.  At first, your child may find this hard.  The trick is to accept any answer they give – as long as it makes sense.  If it doesn’t seem to make sense, ask them to explain.  You may be very surprised when you hear the explanation.