Comprehension Strategies:
- Try to read to your child everyday or night.
- Prepare some pre-questions to ask your child before reading a story with him or her.
- Build a background by introducing the story and looking at just all the pictures first.
- Stop a few times while you are reading the story to your chid and let him or her share comments, ask questions, or answer your questions.
- Have a discussion with your child after you have read the story.
- Ask your child to try and retell the story you just read, and with him or her go back through some parts of the story if he or she forgot about them.
- Have your child make inferences and judgments from the story like what lesson can we learn for this story or do you think that the character did the right or wrong thing?
- Model fluent reading for your child.
- Read the same book multiple times (which probably happens anyways!)
- Go over the setting, theme, characters, plot, problems, and resolution every now and then when reading with your child.
- Have your child point to the title, illustrator, front, back, and spine of a book you are about to read with him or her.
- Reenact a story with your child by either acing it out as a play or creating mini puppets to act out the story.