"The more that you read,
The more things you will know,
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go!"
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
Dr. Seuss

 Helping Your Child Read At Home
When helping your child read at home, several strategies may be used
to aid in decoding unknown words.  
These are strategies that our Reading Recovery program uses to 
help children become better readers.

  Tell the child to look at the picture. You may tell the child the word is 
something that can be seen in the picture, if that is the case.

  Tell the child to look for chunks in the word, such as it in sit, 
or at in cat, or ot in hot.

Ask the child to get his/her mouth ready to say the word by
shaping the mouth for the beginning letter.

 Ask the child if the word looks like another word he/she knows.
Does cook look like book? Or hat like cat?

Ask the child to go on and read to the end of the sentence.
Often by reading the other words in context, the child can 
figure out the unknown word.

If the child says the wrong word while reading, ask questions like:
Does it make sense?
Does it sound right?
Does it look right?
 

" A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining,
and explain to those who are not very good at understanding."
--- Dwight D. Eisenhower



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