Reading Strategies

Here are a few suggestions to help our students become better readers.  These strategies can be used at home when you are reading with your child or helping with homework.

1. Predicting - When you read a story with your child, ask the student to make a guess what the story is about.  Take a "picture walk" by previewing the illustrations.
2. Questioning - Have a conversation.  Ask your student questions about the books they read independenlty or with you.  Why did the character make that decision?  What is going to happen next?  How did the character feel about that?  etc, etc...
3. Oral Reading - Students of all ages love to listen to a good book.  Take special time to read to your students so that he or she can hear what fluent reading sounds like.  Encourage your student to read to you or younger siblings.
4. Comprehension - Many students struggle to understand what they read.  Help your student by "thinking aloud" as you read.  You can show your child how good readers think about reading.  For example, "I wonder why________"  or "I reread that part because_________".
5. Summarizing - Summarizing requires students to determine what is important in what they are reading and to put it into their own words. Summarizing helps students remember what they read.

 Here a link to an article about families reading together.