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

Learning from the Title of the Story

Each night, before you read your Book together, read the title together and talk about what it means.   Here are some things you can talk about:

a) Look at the title to decide:
            - what will the book be about?
- if it’s a story book, is it going to be funny, scary, adventurous, a fairy-tale