How to help at Home

How to Help Your Child at Home

Read aloud to your child. Research has proved that this is the most important thing a parent can do to ensure a child's reading success.
Have your child read to you.
Do shared reading. You read a sentence, your child reads a sentence.
While in the car have your child read street signs and billboards.
At the market have your child read product labels.
Obtain a library card for your child and check out a book.
Encourage your child to read the newspaper. Discuss articles together.
Measure objects and rooms in the house together.
Subscribe to child-oriented magazines. Read them together.
View television programs together. Discuss them afterwards.
Create flash cards for your child's particular needs--alphabet recognition, vocabulary words, numbers, math facts, states and capitals, etc. Use flash cards in a variety of game activities.
Have your child follow a recipe, measure ingredients and prepare a dish.
Begin a story and have your child finish it.
Using magazines, go on a phonics picture-hunt looking for pictures of things that begin with specific letters.
Go on a color, shape, or number walk. Your child points out things that are a particular color or shape, or counts items such as trees, houses and mailboxes.
Have your child figure change from the grocery or department store.
Encourage your child to write stories on a typewriter or computer.
Play games on the refrigerator with magnetic letters and numbers.
Write notes to your child. Place them around the house--on the bed, on the door, on the mirror, in their lunch box, etc.
Have your child write letters and thank-you notes to friends and relatives.

Improve Your Child's Reading

Visit the Fairfield County Library and check out books.
Visit a local bookstore and purchase a few new titles.
Read everyday. You can take turns reading to each other.
Record the books you have read on the reading log.
Write about stories you have read and tell about the characters, setting, problems the characters face, and tell how the story ends. Illustrate your favorite parts of the story.
Remember to choose "just right books" that aren't too hard or too easy. It is okay to find some words you don't know. That's how we learn.
Use your reading strategies. (Reread the word, check the picture, read the rest of the sentence to find out what makes sense, look closely at the parts of the word you know, and always try hard.)

I hope this helps you enjoy reading.
Happy Reading!!

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