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

WRITING

1) Ask your child to write a letter to a family member. Show them how to address an envelope (i.e., where the address goes, where the stamp goes, where to put the return address).  Children will become more interested in writing when they know that someone special is going to be reading their writing.  If you can, talk with the person your child is writing to and ask them to write back.  Your child will like receiving the response.  Encourage your child to start being a “pen pal” with this person.  You yourself might also want to become a pen pal.  For fun, leave your messages in different places (e.g., under their pillow, in the box of cereal, in their boots).  They will enjoy finding and reading your messages.

2)Ask your child to make up a grocery list (some children might only manage a few – others may put more items on their list); if possible, take them to the grocery store with you and encourage them to use the list to remember the things they need; if possible, ask them to take the items off the shelf and put it in the basket; (writing becomes more meaningful when it is useful and your child can see how writing helps him or her in every day situations)

3)One night, tell your child what you are making for dinner.  Ask you child to make a “menu” for the dinner.  They might want to write down what is being served, how much it costs, and draw a picture of what it looks like.  When dinner is made, and everybody is sitting down to eat, ask your child to pretend to be the “waiter” and give people at the table the menu.  The people at the table can order and the “waiter” can bring in the food.  Afterwards, the eaters can pretend to “pay” the “waiter.”

4)If your child eats lunch at school, write them a note and put it in their lunchbox.  They will like reading your letter.  After you have left some messages in their lunch, encourage them to write you a letter and leave it in your lunchbox. (The trick here is to do it a few times yourself first; if you ask them too soon, they will not know what to write; you may find that, at first, they are “copying” the things that you wrote to them; don’t worry about this- the important thing is that they are writing; over time, they will write their own messages).