From your resource teachers

HELP YOUR CHILD PREPARE FOR READING

The following suggestions have been beneficial to many
parents:

1.)   Provide a good role model — read yourself
and read often to your child.
2.)   Provide varied reading material — some for
reading enjoyment and some with information
about hobbies and interests.
3.)   Encourage activities that require reading — for
example, cooking (reading a recipe),
constructing a kite (reading directions), or
identifying an interesting bird's nest or a shell
collected at the beach (using a reference
book).
4.)   Establish a reading time, even if it is only ten
minutes a day.
5.)   Write notes to your school-age child;
encourage written responses.
6.)   Ask your child to bring a library book home to
read to a younger sibling.
7.)   Establish one evening a week for reading
(instead of television viewing).
8.)   Encourage your child in all reading efforts.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-can-i-improvemy-
childs-reading

--Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Tack,
Academic Resource Teacher and Reading Coach

Last Modified on October 19, 2015