Reading Tips for Parents

These tips come from Dawn Reithaug's great book Orchestrating Academic Success

Remember that learning to read takes time and lots of PATIENCE. Try to let you child figure out the word before you tell them what it is. All children learn to walk at different times. The same is true with reading. Each child will read when they are ready.
Ask your child these open-ended questions during reading to help them think about their learning:

What could that word be? What pictures match with the story? What is happening in this picture? How is this supposed to sound? How do you know this is making sense? Something doesn't sound right. What would make sense? What could fit in there? How did you figure that out? You went back and fixed that. How did you know what to do? When have you done that before? What might help you figure out this word? What do you know about reading that might help you now? What other way could you try that? What is the same (different) here? What letter does that word start (or end) with? What other word looks like that? What do you hear at the beginning (or at the end)? What sounds do you hear? What do you think it might say? What do you predict might happen? How did you find the answer? How did you do that?

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