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

MEASUREMENT

Time – Months, Seasons and Days

1.  Please review the months of the year.  Review with your child the number of months in a year.  Can she name them in order?  Call out a month.  Can she name the months that come after?  (e.g., You say “May” and she answers with “June, July, August…”)  can she say the months backwards?  Does she know what month comes before March, September, June, etc? 

PRACTICE

Game: Draw a picture that shows your favourite month.  However, you are not allowed to say or write the name of the month.  You are only allowed to draw hints.  (For example, for October, you might draw a pumpkin, leaves falling off trees, wind, etc.)  Time yourself: how long does it take your child to guess?  If your child wants to, encourage them to draw the clues so you can guess.  (At first, they may draw the same things you drew – don’t worry about this “copying.”  They will come up with their own ideas on their own in time.  What is important here is that they are making the connection between the month and the characteristics of that month.)

If your child knows the months very well, give them clues to guess the month you are thinking of.  (e.g., I am thinking of a month that is in spring and that starts with the letter “A”).  Remember to make the clues easy enough so that your child is able to guess the month.

If appropriate, give your child a spelling test on the months of the year.  Does she know how to spell them all correctly?  Help her remember the ones she has difficulty with.  (Remember, some children will not yet be ready to do this – don’t force your child to do this if they are having a lot of difficulty – what is important right now is that they know the months).

• Please review with your child the seasons of the year.  How many are there in all? What order do they come in?  What is something special that happens in each season? (e.g., Halloween is in October, Christmas is in December, etc.) What are the months of each season? (e.g., winter is mainly in January and February, and March, spring is mainly in April, May, and June, summer is mainly in July, August, and September, and fall is mainly in October, November, and December). 

 

• Play a guessing game with your child: “I am thinking of a season.  May falls in this season.  The leaves start to bloom and it is warm.  What season is it?”

• Ask your child to draw their favourite season and explain why they like it so much.

 

•  Please review the days of the week with your child. How many days are in a week?  How many weeks are there in a year?  On a sheet of paper, draw seven boxes.  Ask your child to write in the seven days (if they can).  Each day, with your child, draw in each box one thing that happened on that day.