Reading Tips for Home
Keeping Reading fun and Productive!
March 5, 2024
Reading aloud to your children is a gift that will last a lifetime.
Benefits of Reading At Home
Increased Vocabulary
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Sense of Story Structure
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Greater Comprehension
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Together Time
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Word Exposure by Age 5
Number of words a child is exposed to based on how many times a parent reads to a child before school.
4,662
63,570
Never Read-To
1-2 x Week
1,483,300
3-5 x week
What Should My Child Be Reading?
My child only wants to read Graphic Novels!
- SCES Parent
That’s OK!
Goal: Reading for Pleasure
How Do Kids Learn How To Read? video
How Can Families Support at Home?
Read for Pleasure
Prompt for Learning
Communicate with School Team
REading at Home for Language learners, including Immersion Students!
Read to your child In your Native Language!!! Enjoy reading…remember, reading for Pleasure!
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suggested Ways the brain learns best: Music, Rhythm and Rhyme; Movement; Meaningful Connections; novelty; humor
no app or video can replace the importance of Reading and talking with your child in your native language
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The more pathways you use to input information, the more pathways from which it can be retrieved. (Allen, et al. 2007)
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phonological awareness games
Rhyme Production
Silly Simon Says:
Silly Simon says, touch your “belbow”. What they mean is touch your ____.
phoneme blending onset-rime
I’m thinking of a food for our grocery list that begins with the /n/ /n/ /n/ sound and it ends with “uts”
Phoneme blending
Turtle Talk and Cheetah Speak: Talk like a turtle segmenting words by phoneme: /k/ /a/ /k/ (cake) and speaking like a cheetah saying the word
Phoneme deletion of initial sound
Say ‘cake’, now say cake and take away the /k/ what’s left? ‘ache’.
Parent Resources